by Agency Reporter | Apr 11, 2021 | Briefing
FIFTEEN PROGRESSIVE JEWISH GROUPS from across the world have issued a statement urging a shift from discussing how antisemitism is defined, to a focus on how antisemitism can be dismantled, alongside all forms of racism and bigotry. “We believe in a world where we are...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 11, 2021 | Briefing
HUNDREDS OF CHURCHES have already signed up to a week-long ‘nature count’ occurring this summer, which will encourage people to visit churchyards and record what they see. Churches Count on Nature, to run between 5-13 June 2021, is a citizen-science event covering...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 10, 2021 | Briefing
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE are bearing the brunt of the mental health crisis caused by the pandemic, new analysis by the Royal College of Psychiatrists has found. A year on from the first lockdown and after warnings from the mental health sector about the impact of the...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 10, 2021 | Briefing
IN A COMMUNICATION to the United Nations published on 8 April, 2021, Saudi Arabian authorities confirm that the Kingdom’s claims to have abolished the death penalty for childhood crimes are untrue. In its response to the U.N. Special Procedures, the Permanent Mission...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 9, 2021 | Briefing
HMP LEYHILL, AN OPEN PRISON in Gloucestershire, England, holding many men convicted of sexual offences, was assessed by inspectors in 2021 as requiring urgent improvements in its work to release high-risk prisoners. Charlie Taylor, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, said...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 9, 2021 | Briefing
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL’S ANNUAL REPORT, published earlier this week, says that the global pandemic has both exposed and deepened global inequality and has had the worst impact on the most vulnerable people in the world, The 408-page report – Amnesty International...
