by Agency Reporter | Dec 1, 2022 | Briefing
SHEFFIELD ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL has removed from its annual Christmas Tree Festival a tree which was entered by a local Christian climate group as a protest against the Church of England’s continuing investment in fossil fuel companies. Each year, local groups are...
by Agency Reporter | Nov 30, 2022 | Briefing
GOVERNMENTS AROUND THE WORLD are putting women and girls in danger of unprecedented levels of poverty as a result of austerity policies introduced to recover their economies from the pandemic amidst the cost-of-living crisis, according to a new Oxfam report. The...
by Agency Reporter | Nov 30, 2022 | Briefing
THE SAMARITANS, the Royal College of Psychiatrists and over a dozen mental health organisations and charities have written an open letter to the Prime Minister about the disproportionate impact the cost of living is having on people’s mental health. Dated 25...
by Agency Reporter | Nov 29, 2022 | Briefing
NEW ACADEMIC RESEARCH shows the large numbers of people in the UK starting or ending an unpaid caring role each year. Analysis of data from 2010 to 2020 by the University of Sheffield’s Centre for Care found that on average,12,000 people in the UK become an...
by Agency Reporter | Nov 29, 2022 | Briefing
RESEARCHERS HAVE URGED CENTRAL BANKS across the G20 to ensure that efforts to curb shorter-term inflation do not hinder progress on the net zero transition, which could undermine longer-term price stability. Endorsed by leading research institutes and NGOs, the 2022...
by Agency Reporter | Nov 28, 2022 | Briefing
THE RUSSIAN AUTHORITIES have developed a sophisticated system of restrictions and reprisals to crush public protests and suppress reporting of them by journalists and independent monitors, Amnesty International says in a new report published on 24 November. Since the...
