by Agency Reporter | Apr 19, 2022 | Briefing
IN A LETTER to UK Home Secretary Priti Patel and Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi, Amnesty International said that strip-searching children breaches their rights and seriously violates their dignity. The case of Child Q, a 15-year-old Black girl strip-searched at her...
by Staff Writer | Apr 18, 2022 | Briefing
UNHCR, THE UN REFUGEE AGENCY, has expressed strong opposition and concerns about the United Kingdom’s plan to export its asylum obligations, and has urged the UK to refrain from transferring asylum seekers and refugees to Rwanda. Commenting on 14 April, UNHCR’s...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 18, 2022 | Briefing
THE TRADES UNION CONGRESS (TUC) has repeated its call for the UK government to take over the running of P&O Ferries’ passenger and freight services as ‘a last resort’. Ministers must step in to run services if a ‘fit and proper’ operator cannot be...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 17, 2022 | Briefing
THE RSPB IS CALLING for everyone to join the wildlife-planting revolution, after a YouGov survey revealed that three quarters of people are now doing at least something in their garden or outside space to help wildlife. The survey, commissioned by the RSPB (the Royal...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 16, 2022 | Briefing
AN OPEN LETTER has been sent by over 175 engaged NGOs to the Prime Minister and Home Secretary, rigorously opposing plans to send people seeking asylum in the UK to Rwanda. The full letter, whose signatories include Ekklesia, and who are listed in full below, reads as...
by Staff Writer | Apr 16, 2022 | Briefing
HEALTHCARE EXPERTS have been responding to the publication by NHS England of the latest monthly performance statistics. Hugh Alderwick, Director of Policy at the Health Foundation, said: “Today’s data highlight the extreme pressure on NHS patients and staff,...
