by Agency Reporter | Jan 12, 2022 | Briefing
RESPONDING TO THE JUDGEMENT delivered in tennis star Novak Djokovic’s appeal against the Australian government’s decision to cancel his visa, Dr Graham Thom, Amnesty International Australia’s Refugee Advisor, said: “Djokovic got a brief glimpse of what refugees have...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 11, 2022 | Briefing
NEW RESEARCH published by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Common Wealth, and the High Pay Centre shows that UK workers get comparatively little benefit from share dividends – despite common claims that they do. The report, Do dividends pay our pensions? finds that...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 11, 2022 | Briefing
THE UN REFUGEE AGENCY, (UNHCR) is calling on the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU), and the Czech Republic which will assume the Presidency in July, to prioritise the better protection of refugees in Europe and globally. While many EU...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 10, 2022 | Briefing
AROUND TWO-THIRDS of UK doctors have told the BMA that the spread of Omicron is causing a dramatic slowdown in the provision of non-urgent medical care, leaving millions of patients in untold suffering as a result. In the results of a snap survey released by the...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 10, 2022 | Briefing
AHEAD OF THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY (11 January 2022) of the opening of the now infamous military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Daphne Eviatar, Amnesty International USA’s Security with Human Rights Programme Director, said:“This is an anniversary that should never have been...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 9, 2022 | Briefing
CRIMINAL JUSTICE CAMPAIGN GROUP JENGbA (Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association) and Liberty have warned politicians that proposals in the Policing Bill risk entrenching failed and unjust ‘joint enterprise’ criminal justice protocols by stealth. In a...
