by Agency Reporter | Jan 18, 2023 | Briefing
THE RICHEST one per cent grabbed nearly two-thirds of all new wealth worth $42 trillion created since 2020, almost twice as much money as the bottom 99 per cent of the world’s population, reveals a new Oxfam report. During the past decade, the richest one per cent has...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 17, 2023 | Briefing
YOUNG PEOPLE across the UK have the opportunity to win funding to help tackle climate change, as part of a ground-breaking initiative from the Woodland Trust. The youth innovation competition offers young people the chance to secure part of a £20,000 prize to support...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 17, 2023 | Briefing
THE TRADES UNION CONGRESS (TUC) will hold a national ‘protect the right to strike’ day on Wednesday 1 February. Events will take place in different parts of the country against the UK Government’s new anti-strike legislation. Members of the public will be...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 16, 2023 | Briefing
THE Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has released a statement on UK Parliament Justice Secretary Dominic Raab’s Bill of Rights Bill, currently awaiting a second reading in the Westminster Parliament. In full, the statement declares that: The Human...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 16, 2023 | Briefing
AHEAD of the annual gathering of world leaders in Davos this week, Alvaro Lario, President of the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), has warned of the urgent need to invest at speed and scale in long-term rural development to prevent...
by Staff Writer | Jan 15, 2023 | Briefing
A NEW Oxfam report on the war in Yemen reveals that there were more than 1,700 attacks on civilians who were killed, injured or forced to flee their homes in a fourteen month period. Analysis of data covering January 2021 to the end of February 2022 found that air...
