by Agency Reporter | Aug 14, 2021 | Briefing
THE MBALE TREES PROJECT – funded by the long-standing Wales and Africa programme – aims to plant over 3 million trees a year in the hilly, heavily deforested area of eastern Uganda in a bid to increase community resilience to the impacts of climate change. Working...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 14, 2021 | Briefing
NINETY-FOUR PER CENT OF RESIDENTS polled by the Local Government Association (LGA) want to see increased biodiversity in their area, including the planting of trees and protection of green spaces. The survey for the LGA, which represents councils in England and Wales,...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 13, 2021 | Briefing
THE TRADES UNION CONGRESS (TUC) is calling IS on the UK Government to establish a permanent short-time working scheme as “a post pandemic legacy” to help protect working people through periods of future economic change. The TUC says the furlough scheme, while far from...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 13, 2021 | Briefing
MORE THAN 4,000 ROHINGYAS living in Cox’s Bazar refugee camps in Bangladesh have received their first Covid-19 vaccine shots as part of a national inoculation drive to curb the spread of the deadly coronavirus. The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) welcomed the start of the...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 12, 2021 | Briefing
SERVICES AND INDIVIDUALS who are likely to witness a drugs overdose are being urged to have their say in a consultation on who should be able to supply and administer the life saving drug naloxone. During the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, families of those in...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 12, 2021 | Briefing
UN EXPERTS HAVE EXPRESSED SERIOUS CONCERN about the UK Government’s plan to ban all prosecutions, impede investigations, and preclude victims’ civil claims in connection with ‘the Troubles’ in Northern Ireland, which would effectively institute...
