by Agency Reporter | May 15, 2023 | Briefing
PEERS FROM the All-Party Parliamentary Humanist Group (APPHG) have raised the negative impact of the proposed Illegal Migration Bill on non-religious asylum seekers, as well as concerns about the Bill’s catastrophic consequences on human rights more broadly. Humanists...
by Agency Reporter | May 14, 2023 | Briefing
ABUSIVE RHETORIC from politicians, the media and social commentators has trickled down to produce increasingly abusive and hateful speech against LGBT persons in the United Kingdom, the UN independent expert on sexual orientation and gender identity has warned. “I am...
by Agency Reporter | May 13, 2023 | Briefing
NEW RESEARCH by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) provides a local breakdown of the financial benefit to the care workforce and the wider economic benefits of raising wages to a fair minimum of £15 per hour across the social care sector. The social care workforce...
by Agency Reporter | May 12, 2023 | Briefing
REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS (RSF) has urged the Ukrainian and French authorities to conduct a thorough investigation into a French video reporter’s death in a hail of Russian rocket fire in eastern Ukraine yesterday (9 May), and paid tribute to the courage he displayed...
by Staff Writer | May 12, 2023 | Briefing
EVERY YEAR, on 15 May, conscientious objectors, both past and present are remembered. Around the world, many people are imprisoned or forced to flee their home countries for refusing to join the armed forces. This is a day when peace activists and pacifists stand in...
by Agency Reporter | May 11, 2023 | Briefing
NEW FIGURES released yesterday by the UK government show just how overdue its reform of private renting is in England, as homelessness and evictions increase, says the housing and homelessness charity Shelter. The figures show: 24,060 households were threatened with...
