by Agency Reporter | Jan 25, 2022 | Briefing
THE WELSH GOVERNMENT’S COUNSEL GENERAL has called on the UK government to back reforms to legal aid to ensure people can access the support they need. Mick Antoniw said budget cuts over the last decade have risked creating one law for the rich and another for...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 24, 2022 | Briefing
A LACK OF CERTAINTY around councils’ public health funding this year risks exacerbating the growing crisis of demand for support services, including those for drug and alcohol treatment, which has built up as a result of the pandemic. The Local Government Association...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 24, 2022 | Briefing
AFTER AN ATTACK on Rabbis for Human Rights and the Palestinians they were accompanying, World Council of Churches (WCC) acting General Secretary, the Rev Prof Dr Ioan Sauca shared prayers of healing for those injured and of solidarity with those working for peace. The...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 23, 2022 | Briefing
THE PEACE PLEDGE UNION (PPU) has issued the following statement with regards to the prospect of war over Ukraine. The PPU is Britain’s leading pacifist organisation and the British section of War Resisters’ International. The Peace Pledge Union shares the...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 22, 2022 | Briefing
ONE YEAR AFTER the UN’s multilateral Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) entered into force, CND has launched a substantive report on the new treaty and its implications for British nuclear policies. The report, Nuclear weapons are banned! What...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 22, 2022 | Briefing
THE WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES (WCC) has supported a renewed call issued by interreligious leaders from the United States for the prison at Guantánamo Bay to be closed, and for justice for those being held. In a letter from, among more than two dozen others, the...
