by Agency Reporter | Aug 11, 2021 | Briefing
SAJID JAVID, the UK Government’s new Health and Social Care Secretary, recently warned that the number of people on a waiting list for NHS care in England could reach as many as 13 million. New modelling from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) shows the...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 11, 2021 | Briefing
THE UN INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL on Climate Change’s (IPCC) report on the impacts of climate change clearly demonstrates that efforts to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees, a key target of the Paris Agreement, will fail unless urgent and drastic action is taken this...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 10, 2021 | Briefing
QUAKERS IN BRITAIN have concluded their three-week festival of faith and fellowship. At the end of their Yearly Meeting, their governing body, Quakers declared “We have pledged ourselves to continue to be a gentle, angry people who dare to live for truth and justice...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 10, 2021 | Briefing
WRITTEN BY THE WORLD’S TOP CLIMATE SCIENTISTS, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 1 report on the Physical Science Basis summarises the latest scientific understanding of what is happening to our climate system, and gives a stark...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 9, 2021 | Briefing
FOUR OUT OF FIVE (79 per cent) social housing residents in England say they have struggled to pay for at least one essential item whilst on Universal Credit, such as heating, clothes and Council Tax, according to a new report by the National Housing Federation. Four...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 9, 2021 | Briefing
NEPAL’S INDIGENOUS PEOPLES have suffered five decades of human rights violations as a result of abusive conservation policies, say Amnesty International and the Community Self-Reliance Centre (CSRC) in a new report. The report, Violations in the name of...
