by Agency Reporter | Jun 11, 2021 | Briefing
AS LEADERS INCLUDING US PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN prepare to attend a Nato summit in Brussels on 14 June, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) has released a major report arguing that members of the transatlantic alliance...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 10, 2021 | Briefing
FAITH LEADERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD have written an open letter to Boris Johnson and G7 leaders ahead of their summit on Friday calling for vaccine patents to be waived and an increase in funding to ensure vaccines reach the poorest countries and prevent the spread of...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 10, 2021 | Briefing
UN HUMAN RIGHTS EXPERTS have urged Canadian authorities and the Catholic Church to conduct prompt and thorough investigations into the discovery of a mass grave containing the remains of over 200 children at a British Columbia ‘residential school’ for...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 9, 2021 | Briefing
FEWER THAN ONE IN FIVE exhausted unpaid carers (14 per cent) are confident that the support they receive with caring will continue following the COVID-19 pandemic. After an extraordinarily challenging year providing many more hours of care for loved ones during the...
by Staff Writer | Jun 9, 2021 | Briefing
CITIES ACROSS THE WORLD, including Windhoek, Berlin, London, Pretoria, Vancouver and Washington, have been participating in a global push to raise awareness about Canadian company ReconAfrica seeking to exploit oil and gas in Namibia’s Kavango Basin. The location is...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 8, 2021 | Briefing
Nuclear-armed states spent $72.6 billion on their nuclear weapons as the pandemic spread in 2020, an increase of $1.4 billion from 2019, according to a new report by the Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). The report,...
