by Agency Reporter | Oct 22, 2021 | Briefing
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES have been hit with an endless tide of inadequate gestures and broken promises from rich countries and pharmaceutical companies, who are failing to deliver billions of doses they promised while blocking the real solutions to vaccine inequality,...
by Agency Reporter | Oct 22, 2021 | Briefing
QUAKERS IN BRITAIN are calling for just solutions to the climate crisis and is encouraging Friends to join the global day of action on Saturday 6 November, in a statement published in advance of the UN COP26 climate negotiations. The statement draws on minutes from...
by Agency Reporter | Oct 21, 2021 | Briefing
THE BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION has responded to the press conference given by Health Secretary Sajid Javid in which he said that the number of Covid cases are expected to rise to 100,000 a day and that the Westminster Government would not be implementing its ‘Plan...
by Agency Reporter | Oct 21, 2021 | Briefing
BRITISH PACIFISTS SAY they are sad but not surprised by the news that armed forces police have closed all investigations into alleged war crimes by British forces personnel in Iraq. In a written statement on 18 October, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said that the...
by Agency Reporter | Oct 21, 2021 | Briefing
PROPOSALS TO END the need for food banks as a primary response to food insecurity have been published by the Scottish Government. Views are being sought on a draft national plan, which is supported by food bank operators including the Trussell Trust and the...
by Agency Reporter | Oct 20, 2021 | Briefing
FOR THE PAST 19 YEARS, RABBIS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS has been accompanying vulnerable Palestinian communities during the olive harvest, providing a protective presence from settler and security force harassment, and also to help speed up the harvest. Farmers are only given...
