by Agency Reporter | Sep 15, 2021 | Briefing
MORE THAN 140 FORMER HEADS OF STATE and government and Nobel laureates have called on the candidates for the next German Chancellor to declare themselves in favour of waiving intellectual property rules for Covid-19 vaccines and transferring vaccine technologies, and...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 14, 2021 | Briefing
THE CAMPAIGN FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT (CND) has been granted Core Participant status in the Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI). The judge-led inquiry into undercover policing, chaired by Sir John Mitting QC, is now set to examine evidence that the UK’s best-known peace...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 14, 2021 | Briefing
THE UK GOVERNMENT SHOULD FINANCE the transition to a net-zero economy by making full use of the financial institutions which it already owns, according to research from the New Economics Foundation (NEF). The report finds that the UK’s state-owned financial...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 13, 2021 | Briefing
ARMS DEALERS will have to pass a remembrance ceremony for victims of war and the arms trade when they arrive at the DSEI arms fair on Tuesday. The Peace Pledge Union will read out the names of dozens of victims of war of many nationalities over the last 20 years...
by Staff Writer | Sep 13, 2021 | Briefing
AN ALLIANCE OF FISHING ORGNAISATIONS and businesses from England’s coastal communities, working with Greenpeace UK and the New Economics Foundation, have issued a joint statement declaring “a state of emergency in the English Channel and Southern North...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 13, 2021 | Briefing
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL HAS CONDEMNED the arrest of a Russian journalist who advocated ‘smart voting’ against the ruling United Russia party, a tactic that the high-profile Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny has also advocated. Igor Khoroshilov, editor-in-chief...
