by Agency Reporter | Sep 15, 2022 | Briefing
A YOUNG WOMAN PROTESTOR, Jatuphon ‘Niw’ Saeung, has been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment in Thailand for participating in a mock fashion show in October 2020. She was accused of imitating and mocking the Thai Queen by wearing a traditional Thai dress....
by Agency Reporter | Sep 14, 2022 | Briefing
NEW ANALYSIS by campaigning group Debt Justice shows that the total energy debt for UK households was hitting historic highs even before the energy price rise in April 2022. The analysis, based on the latest data from the energy regulator Ofgem, reveals that total...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 14, 2022 | Briefing
Los Angeles County JAIL’S BOOKING CENTRE, known as the Inmate Reception Centre (IRC), is holding people in abysmal conditions of confinement and violating decades of court orders, according to an emergency court filing by the American Civil Liberties Union...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 13, 2022 | Briefing
MEMBERS OF LIZ TRUSS’ NEW CABINET are over nine times more likely to have gone to an independent school than the general population, according to analysis by the Sutton Trust. The majority – 68 per cent – were educated at fee-paying schools, while 19 per cent...
by Staff Writer | Sep 13, 2022 | Briefing
MORE CHILDREN IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS across Wales have been enjoying free school meals together for the first time from the start of the new school year, with the expansion of free school meals to more than 6,000 nursery-age children in schools. Nursery-age pupils...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 13, 2022 | Briefing
IN A REPORT released last week before it closed, the World Council of Churches (WCC) 11th assembly in Karlsruhe proposed inviting member churches and ecumenical partners to commit to working together in a ‘Pilgrimage of Justice, Reconciliation and Unity’...
