by Agency Reporter | Oct 12, 2022 | Briefing
GREEN CHRISTIAN’S ANNUAL CONFERENCE Building Back Greener, which took place in Birmingham on 7-8 October, explored the need for a new approach to economics. Speakers surveyed principles for economics and consumption rooted in the Christian tradition, such as...
by Agency Reporter | Oct 12, 2022 | Briefing
RICH AND POOR COUNTRIES ALIKE have exacerbated an explosion of economic inequality since the outbreak of the pandemic from 2020, reveals new research by Oxfam and Development Finance International (DFI). The overwhelming majority of governments cut their shares of...
by Agency Reporter | Oct 11, 2022 | Briefing
THERE IS A “WIDENING GULF” between policy rhetoric on unpaid carers and the reality facing the millions of people providing informal care for a friend or family member, according to a new report detailing the diminishing Government support for carers in...
by Staff Writer | Oct 11, 2022 | Briefing
THE COUNCIL OF THE PATRIARCHS and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem have released a statement expressing their ‘grave concern’ at the news that UK Prime Minister Liz Truss told her Israeli counterpart Yair Lapid that she is reviewing the location of the...
by Agency Reporter | Oct 10, 2022 | Briefing
IN A PIONEERING CASE, the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has found that Italy’s failure to provide individualised support services to a family of persons with disabilities was discriminatory and violated their rights to family life, to live...
by Agency Reporter | Oct 10, 2022 | Briefing
TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND MORE CHILDREN will be pushed into poverty if benefits are uprated by wages rather than inflation, new analysis from Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) finds. Almost all these children will be in families where at least one parent is working. CPAG’s...
