by Agency Reporter | Jun 30, 2021 | Briefing
WESTERN SAHARA CAMPAIGN UK has been granted permission by the High Court to bring a judicial review against the government’s decision to adopt the UK-Morocco Association Agreement. The trade agreement applies to products and resources from Western Sahara, over which...
by Staff Writer | Jun 29, 2021 | Briefing
AMNESTY INTERNATIONALl has responded critically to news that the Home Secretary is seeking powers to send people seeking asylum in the UK to be processed in an offshore hub. Tom Davies, Refugees Campaign Manager at Amnesty International UK, said: “It appears yet...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 29, 2021 | Briefing
HUMANISTS UK AND THE OZANNE FOUNDATION have made a joint intervention at the UN Human Rights Council. They called for greater collaboration between the UN Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 28, 2021 | Briefing
SUSTAINABILITY FUNDS hardly redirect capital to sustainable activities compared to conventional funds, according to a new study commissioned by Greenpeace Switzerland and Greenpeace Luxembourg. Exposing these misleading marketing practices, Greenpeace demands...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 28, 2021 | Briefing
THE COSTS OF BUYING A TYPICAL first-time property with a mortgage have risen by two-thirds over the past half-century, with those born in the late 1980s experiencing the highest costs of all, as falling interest payments have failed to offset rapidly rising house...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 27, 2021 | Briefing
NEW ANALYSIS PUBLISHED BY THE TUC shows that one in 12 key workers (788,000 people) do not qualify for statutory sick pay (SSP) – despite many of them being at greater risk from Covid-19 due to the frontline nature of their job. The analysis uses the same definition...
