by Agency Reporter | Sep 21, 2022 | Briefing
THE COLUMBAN MISSIONARIES IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND have announced their latest Schools Media Competition which this year has the title: Building Peaceful Futures. It is launched today (21 September) on World Peace Day. The competition is targeted at students aged...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 20, 2022 | Briefing
THE UN’s INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT (IFAD) has announced its first grant to a digital payments company, MFS Africa, to promote the use of mobile remittances in marginal rural areas in five African countries: Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, The Gambia and...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 20, 2022 | Briefing, Uncategorised
PRIVATE RENTERS’ AVERAGE FLOOR SPACE per person in England has fallen by 16 per cent over the past 20 years – floorspace collectively equivalent to the size of Nottingham – while rents as a share of income have remained stubbornly high, according to new Resolution...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 19, 2022 | Briefing
TEN OF THE WORLD’S WORST CLIMATE HOTSPOTS – those with the highest number of UN appeals driven by extreme weather events – have suffered a 123 per cent rise in acute hunger over just the past six years, according to an Oxfam report published on 18 September....
by Agency Reporter | Sep 19, 2022 | Briefing
OVER 100 ECONOMISTS AND DEVELOPMENT EXPERTS have called on BlackRock and other creditors to cancel a significant amount of Zambia’s debt. In an open letter released on 16 September, the signatories call for a large-scale debt restructuring, and for the UK and New York...
by Staff Writer | Sep 18, 2022 | Briefing
DECLARING THAT “there is no justification in either faith or science for the racism, xenophobia and discrimination that we are witnessing in the world”, the leadership of the World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee has adopted a public statement which...
