by Agency Reporter | May 9, 2021 | Briefing
A NEW IPPR REPORT calls for bold but common-sense reforms to change the way the UK runs its food system to ensure everyone is able to access healthy food, produced in ways that support the environment and nature, while providing sustainable livelihoods for food...
by Agency Reporter | May 9, 2021 | Briefing
UN HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS SPOKESPERSON Rupert Colville has issued a briefing on the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Eight Palestinian refugee families residing in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of East Jerusalem are facing a risk of...
by Agency Reporter | May 8, 2021 | Briefing
CHRISTIAN ENVIRONMENTAL AND DEVELOPMENT CHARITIES Christian Aid, Eco-congregation Scotland and Operation Noah have welcomed the decision of the Church of Scotland Investors’ Trust to sell its shares in oil and gas companies. They also called on the Church of Scotland...
by Agency Reporter | May 8, 2021 | Briefing
AHEAD OF THE EU-INDIA LEADERS’ MEETING, Amnesty International has called on EU leaders to urge India to protect the rights to life and health, and to raise the alarm about the crackdown on dissent being carried out by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s...
by Agency Reporter | May 7, 2021 | Briefing
RESEARCH BY THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS has found that more than four-fifths (84 per cent) of the UK public think the climate and ecological emergencies will affect mental health in a decade at least as much as unemployment (83 per cent) and Covid 19 (84 per...
by Agency Reporter | May 7, 2021 | Briefing
The land rights of the Xokleng, a tribe that was violently expelled from its territory in the 19th and 20th centuries to make way for European colonists, are now the focus of a landmark court case in Brazil. The Xokleng were brutally persecuted and evicted by armed...
