by Agency Reporter | Feb 23, 2023 | Briefing
ON ASH WEDNESDAY, clergy and lay Christians protested outside the Leeds, Manchester and Newcastle offices of Ward Hadaway, lawyers for West Cumbria Mining Limited, and the London headquarters of Javelin Global Commodities, which has an exclusive marketing and offtake...
by Agency Reporter | Feb 23, 2023 | Briefing
QUAKERS IN BRITAIN have joined 200 others in writing to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Home Secretary Suella Braverman urging the UK government to reject Equinor’s plans to open the Rosebank oil field. The Norwegian firm wants to develop the largest undeveloped...
by Agency Reporter | Feb 22, 2023 | Briefing
CLIENTEARTH LAWYERS have filed a case against the UK financial regulator over its decision to approve the prospectus of a company with significant interests in the Cambo and Rosebank oil and gas fields in the North Sea. ClientEarth’s case argues that the Financial...
by Agency Reporter | Feb 22, 2023 | Briefing
NEW RESEARCH from Amnesty International has found that Indigenous people and campesinos (rural farmworkers) have been disproportionately targeted by military forces and the National Police of Peru (PNP) in the repression of protests across the country which began in...
by Agency Reporter | Feb 22, 2023 | Briefing
AS FOSSIL FUEL companies report record profits while underinvesting in renewables and exploring for new oil and gas, UK Christians are calling on Church of England (C of E) and Catholic dioceses yet to make a divestment commitment to do so this Lent. Starting on Ash...
by Agency Reporter | Feb 21, 2023 | Briefing
SOME £17 BILLION is gifted or loaned informally each year, almost all from parents to their adult children. This mostly helps with buying a house or is gifted at the point of marriage. These transfers are very unequally spread. Most transfers come from parents aged...
