by Staff Writer | Oct 4, 2021 | Briefing
A NEW REPORT LAYS BARE THE EXTENT OF FAILINGS at Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre near Rugby, England, currently run by a private company, MTC. Inspectors found poor practice was placing children and staff at risk of harm, as well as failing to give vulnerable...
by Staff Writer | Oct 3, 2021 | Briefing
THE AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE (AFSC) and the Quaker United Nations Committee – New York have announced that Sarah Clarke will be the new Director of Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) New York, from 1 November. Sarah Clarke will lead QUNO’s work with...
by Agency Reporter | Oct 2, 2021 | Briefing
YOUNG PEOPLE AGED 13-18 are being asked to consider: Who in the world today is doing something about inequality, injustice, exclusion and environmental degradation? What can they teach us? How can we draw on our own faith and personal experience to be changemakers?...
by Agency Reporter | Oct 2, 2021 | Briefing
AFTER YEARS OF PRESSURE FROM CIVIL SOCIETY, activists and humanitarian and development agencies, including Christian Aid, the UN has released its first High-Level Panel report explicitly on internally displaced people (IDPs). Often forgotten, these people instead of...
by Staff Writer | Oct 1, 2021 | Briefing
THE UNITED KINGDOM has been added to a watchlist of countries which includes Afghanistan, Belarus, and Nicaragua, due to a rapid decline in fundamental civic freedoms. The restrictive Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts bill, which gives police further powers to...
by Agency Reporter | Oct 1, 2021 | Briefing
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL has called for the Northern Ireland Executive to set up a public inquiry into clerical child sex abuse following the announcement by the Catholic diocese of Dromore of a redress fund for victims. The announcement comes in the wake of significant...
