by Agency Reporter | Mar 26, 2024 | Briefing
THE decision on 24 March by Israeli authorities to reject United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) food convoys into northern Gaza will accelerate the risk of famine and send already starving children more quickly to their graves, says aid...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 26, 2024 | Briefing
THE UK is one of many countries that considers itself to be in the midst of a housing crisis. But a comparison of housing costs, floorspace, quality and wider price levels across countries reveals that households in Britain are paying more for less, and that our...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 25, 2024 | Briefing
NEW official household income statistics show that the real incomes of the poorest third of households were roughly the same in 2022-23 as in 2019-20, despite the Covid pandemic and the cost of living crisis. But other measures of material wellbeing, such as food...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 25, 2024 | Briefing
NEW Global Witness analysis shows Scotland’s renewable energy jobs rose by 70 per cent between 2015 and 2022, according to Office of National Statistics (ONS) estimates. In contrast, between 2015 and 2021 – the last year for which data is available – jobs in...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 24, 2024 | Briefing
WINNERS have been announced in a media competition for young people on the subject of biodiversity, run by the Columban Missionary Society in Britain and Ireland. Young people age 13 to 18 were asked to produce a piece of writing or an image that demonstrates an...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 23, 2024 | Briefing
THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION has created a stifling climate of fear in occupied areas of Ukraine, committing widespread violations of international humanitarian and human rights law in an effort to consolidate its control over the population living there, according to a UN...
