by Agency Reporter | Mar 3, 2021 | Briefing
AN INFLUENTIAL CROSS-PARTY PANEL of MPs and peers have launched an inquiry to look into growing evidence that prisons have a damaging impact on women’s health and well-being. The inquiry by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Women in the Penal System (APPG) will...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 3, 2021 | Briefing
THREE POLISH HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS have been acquitted of charges of “offending religious beliefs” after they pasted up posters depicting the Virgin Mary with a halo in the rainbow colours of the LGBTI pride flag. The Polish authorities had alleged that posters the...
by Staff Writer | Mar 3, 2021 | Briefing
FOLLOWING THE EXPOSURE of alleged criminal activity and growing complaints about the behaviour of the press in the UK in 2011, the Leveson Inquiry made a series of recommendations for a new, more effective regulatory system. As a result, the Press Recognition Panel...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 2, 2021 | Briefing
UN EXPERTS SAY BILLIONS OF PEOPLE, especially in the Global South, risk being excluded from the benefits of Covid-19 immunisation until 2024. They urge rich States to end short-sighted vaccine nationalism that is fuelling a vaccine divide and undermining worldwide...
by Staff Writer | Mar 2, 2021 | Briefing
NEW ANALYSIS SHOWS that by May, over 1 million more people will be living on an income with which they cannot afford to meet everyday needs, even if the £20 Universal Credit uplift is extended. By May, one in three people (21.7 million) will have too little income to...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 2, 2021 | Briefing
TWO CHILD POVERTY CHARITIES have partnered with the National Education Union (NEU) to publish a new resource for schools in England, to help teachers and school staff tackle poverty. Child Poverty Action Group and Children North East developed the resource, Turning...