by Agency Reporter | Nov 18, 2022 | Briefing
WITHOUT URGENT INVESTMENT IN CLIMATE MITIGATION and adaptation, countries in the Sahel risk decades of armed conflict and displacement exacerbated by rising temperatures, resource scarcity and food insecurity, the UN Special Coordinator for Development in the Sahel...
by Agency Reporter | Nov 17, 2022 | Briefing
MANY LOCAL SERVICES FACE SEVERE CUTBACKS due to spiralling costs caused by inflation and demand pressures, the Local Government Association (LGA) is warning ahead of today’s Autumn Statement. A survey by the LGA reveals all responding councils are facing...
by Agency Reporter | Nov 17, 2022 | Briefing
THE DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL TRADE last week released its latest quarterly data for military and dual-use export licences issued between April-June 2022. Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) has now completed its analysis of the data, made available on CAAT’s online...
by Agency Reporter | Nov 16, 2022 | Briefing
ALMOST ALL DIRECTORS OF ADULT SOCIAL SERVICES across England say there is neither enough funding nor enough care workers to meet the support needs of older and disabled people this winter. Fewer than one in 10 directors think they could manage with existing resources...
by Agency Reporter | Nov 16, 2022 | Briefing
THE ‘COST OF LIVING’ CRISIS is more accurately a ‘cost of profit’ crisis – of rising billionaire wealth and corporate mega-profits – that is driving up poverty, hunger, indebtedness and deprivation around the world, Oxfam says, as the G20...
by Staff Writer | Nov 15, 2022 | Briefing
THE RECENT arrests and harassment of journalists at Just Stop Oil protests has been condemned by the National Union of Journalists and by other organisations concerned with civil liberties and media freedom. The NUJ’s National Executive Committee discussed the...
