by Agency Reporter | Nov 20, 2021 | Briefing
A NEW REPORT released by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, shows how far the international community has come since it called for the development of a new international framework to share responsibility for refugee situations – the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR). The...
by Agency Reporter | Nov 19, 2021 | Briefing
HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANISATION LIBERTY has responded to a raft of amendments to the Government’s Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which create new powers to shut down protest and stifle dissent. Liberty’s Policy and Campaigns Officer, Emmanuelle Andrews, said:...
by Agency Reporter | Nov 19, 2021 | Briefing
WILDLIFE ‘CONSERVANCIES’ IN KENYA whose visitors include Britain’s Royals are implicated in the eviction, torture and murder of local Indigenous people, according to a new report by the US-based Oakland Institute. Survival International has been pointing...
by Staff Writer | Nov 18, 2021 | Briefing
COOKHAM WOOD Young Offenders Institution (YOI), holding 87 children aged from 15 to 18 years in Kent, was found by inspectors to have remained insufficiently good for safety, care and rehabilitation and release planning. Its healthy prison assessment for purposeful...
by Agency Reporter | Nov 18, 2021 | Briefing
A PERFECT STORM of pressures risks engulfing health and social care services in England in the coming months, a comprehensive analysis by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) shows. In a new report, Ten unsustainable pressures on the health and care system in England,...
by Agency Reporter | Nov 17, 2021 | Briefing
WITH ONE YEAR TO GO until the 2022 Fifa World Cup in Qatar, time is running out for the authorities in the Gulf state to deliver on promises to abolish the abusive ‘kafala’ sponsorship system and better protect huge numbers of migrant workers, says Amnesty...
