by Agency Reporter | May 1, 2023 | Briefing
UNIONS, EMPLOYERS, and occupational health and safety bodies have joined forces to condemn the Retained EU Law Bill as dangerous legislation, which threatens to rip up key workplace safety protections. The Bill will automatically scrap thousands of pieces of EU...
by Agency Reporter | May 1, 2023 | Briefing
THE THAI AUTHORITIES should immediately drop charges and release a 15-year-old student activist detained for allegedly defaming the monarchy, Human Rights Watch has said. On 28 March, 2023, the police arrested Thanalop “Yok” Phalanchai in Bangkok and accused her of...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 30, 2023 | Briefing
CND WILL RETURN to Lakenheath Airbase in Suffolk on Saturday 20 May 2023, for a national demonstration against the return of US nuclear weapons to Britain. They will be joined by European campaigners from the Netherlands and Germany, opposed to the siting of these...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 29, 2023 | Briefing
A NEW REPORT on the Church of Scotland’s connections to the transatlantic slave trade has been published. The research covers a 131-year period between the Act of Union in 1707, which led to the creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, and the abolition of...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 29, 2023 | Briefing
QUAKERS IN BRITAIN have been shortlisted for a major campaigning award alongside other organisations for their work as part of the Police Bill Alliance. The alliance is one of three nominated in the National Campaigner Awards held each year by the Sheila McKechnie...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 29, 2023 | Briefing
DEATHS, SELF-HARM and violence have risen in prisons in England and Wales over the past 12 months, with self-harm incidents in women’s jails increasing by 37 per cent, new official data reveals. A statistical bulletin, published by the Ministry of Justice, shows that...
