by Agency Reporter | Feb 6, 2022 | Briefing
AFRICAN UNION LEADERS are meeting at an important summit this weekend (5-6 February) to launch a ‘year of nutrition’ amid worsening levels of hunger and malnutrition that are now threatening sustainable development across the entire continent. One in five...
by Agency Reporter | Feb 5, 2022 | Briefing
THE SUPREME COURT has upheld the findings that the £1,012 fee to register children as British citizens excludes large numbers of children from their rights, following a legal challenge brought by the Project for the Registration of Children as British Citizens (PRCBC)...
by Agency Reporter | Feb 5, 2022 | Briefing
A UN HUMAN RIGHTS EXPERT has decried the existence of more than 100 laws globally which discriminate against people affected by leprosy, saying it was shameful that governments continued to legislate against those suffering from one of the oldest diseases known to...
by Staff Writer | Feb 4, 2022 | Briefing
THE TRADES UNION CONGRESS (TUC) and anti-poverty charities have been commenting on the energy cap rise, interest rate rise and the Chancellor’s measures to address the cost of living crisis. THe TUC General Secretary, Frances O’Grady said: “The Chancellor’s...
by Staff Writer | Feb 4, 2022 | Briefing
THE WORK AND PENSIONS COMMMITTEE has used parliamentary powers to publish a Government-commissioned report into disabled people’s experiences of the benefits system that the DWP had consistently refused to make public. The report The Uses of Health and Disability...
by Agency Reporter | Feb 3, 2022 | Briefing
THE HEALTH FOUNDATION has responded to the announcement of the UK government’s ‘levelling up’ white paper, suggesting that it fails to grasp the magnitude of the health challenge in England. Jo Bibby, Director of Health at the Health Foundation, said:...
