by Agency Reporter | Aug 22, 2022 | Briefing
REGULATORY OVERSIGHT of the private military and security sector is failing to keep pace with the rapidly growing and diversifying industry, leading to heightened global risks of fraud, corruption and violence, according to a new report from Transparency...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 21, 2022 | Briefing
QUAKERS IN BRITAIN have been awarded £200,000 by Benefact Trust to support Quaker communities and meetings to thrive. Benefact Trust, one of the UK’s most impactful Christian grant-making organisations, has donated the grant over three years towards Quaker local...
by Staff Writer | Aug 20, 2022 | Briefing
THE COLLEGE OF POLICING has released updated guidance on outcomes in police misconduct proceedings. The guidance is for chief officers and independent legally qualified chairs who must be appointed to chair most misconduct hearing panels. The new guidance states that...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 20, 2022 | Briefing
ISRAELI FORCES HAVE CLOSED THE OFFICES of six Palestinian civil society organisations in the West Bank of the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). Before dawn on 18 August, Israeli armed forces raided the Ramallah offices of Addameer, al-Haq, Defence for Children...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 19, 2022 | Briefing
THE COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS (CPJ) has called on the authorities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to stop intimidating journalists covering conflict in the country’s east and allow the press to freely cover events of public interest. On Friday,...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 19, 2022 | Briefing
NEW ANALYSIS FROM CITIZENS ADVICE shows one in four (24 per cent) people in the UK simply will not be able to afford to pay their energy bills in October based on current forecasts. This is double the number already in the red ahead of the price cap rise. The figure...
