by Agency Reporter | Dec 27, 2022 | Briefing
THE WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANISATION (WMO), a specialised agency of the United Nations, says that weather, water and climate-related disasters, including extreme flooding, heat and drought affected millions of people and cost billions this year, as the tell-tale...
by Staff Writer | Dec 26, 2022 | Briefing
RESPONDING to the announcement of a ban on NGOs employing women in Afghanistan, the UK development agency Christian Aid’s Head of Asia, Middle East, Latin America, Caribbean and Global Programmes has expressed concern and disappointment. Ray Hasan...
by Agency Reporter | Dec 26, 2022 | Briefing
HOUSEHOLDS LOOKING FOR ALTERNATIVE and cheaper ways of lighting and heating their homes in England could be increasing their risks of fire, says the Local Government Association (LGA). Last year 181 people died in house fires, and this year people trying to...
by Agency Reporter | Dec 25, 2022 | Briefing
IN A SEASONAL Christmas message, signed by acting General Secretary the Rev Professor Dr Ioan Sauca, the World Council of Churches (WCC) reflects on the love of Christ as a love that is for all people. “The joyful message of the first Christmas states that the love of...
by Staff Writer | Dec 24, 2022 | Briefing
PEACE AND JUSTICE ACTIVIST, tutor and author Symon Hill has been formally charged under the Public Order Act over comments he made during a proclamation ceremony for the new king in Oxford three months ago. Thames Valley police said on Friday that Hill had been...
by Agency Reporter | Dec 23, 2022 | Briefing
AS PEOPLE ACROSS THE COUNTRY STRUGGLE with the cost of living crisis this Christmas, a new survey by the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB)reveals the extent of its triple impact on platform workers in the gig economy, who are also being hit with...
