by Agency Reporter | Jun 17, 2024 | Briefing
FORCED displacement surged to historic new levels across the globe last year, according to the 2024 flagship Global Trends Report from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. The rise in overall forced displacement – to 120 million by May 2024 – was the 12th consecutive annual...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 16, 2024 | Briefing
A NEW set of online resources have been launched to help people speak more confidently about the situation in the Middle East. The international development agency Christian Aid understands people may shy away from conversations about Israel and the occupied...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 15, 2024 | Briefing
FOUR HUNDRED YEARS after the birth of one of their founders, Quakers in Cumbria celebrated where it all began on Firbank Fell with their annual outdoor meeting for worship. On 13 June 1652, George Fox spoke to 1,000 people for three hours from a rock three miles...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 15, 2024 | Briefing
IN a letter published in The Guardian on 12 June, the Rev Dr Tessa Henry-Robinson, Moderator of the United Reformed Church (URC) General Assembly, responded to a suggestion that it was absurd for her as a Black British woman to deliver the URC’s apology to Black...
by Staff Writer | Jun 14, 2024 | Briefing
TODAY marks the seventh anniversary of the fire at Grenfell Tower, a 23 storey tower block in North Kensington, London. The fire broke out on the fourth floor just before 1 am on 14 June 2017, and quickly spread up the exterior of the building. Seventy two people were...
by Staff Writer | Jun 14, 2024 | Briefing
IN the latest Department for Education school census, 54,000 pupils were identified as being a young carer, including 21,000 primary school pupils. This was only the second year for which such data was recorded, and showed an increase on the previous year, when just...
