by Agency Reporter | Mar 13, 2024 | Briefing
SUPPORTERS of the international development agency Christian Aid are heading for London this week to lobby MPs over the crisis in the Middle East. They are calling for politicians to meet with their constituents and discuss the desperate need for an end to the...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 13, 2024 | Briefing
A HISTORIC Racial Justice Act hearing has illustrated the discrimination inherent in North Carolina’s death penalty. The evidence showed a clear and persistent pattern of racial bias in jury exclusions that denies people of colour the opportunity to serve on capital...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 12, 2024 | Briefing
A whistleblower who raised concerns that corrupt payments totalling many millions of pounds were being regularly paid to high-ranking Saudi officials to secure a huge defence deal for British defence company GPT Special Projects Management Limited (GPT) is taking...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 12, 2024 | Briefing
THE Youth Select Committee has launched a report on the impact of the cost of living on young people’s health and wellbeing, which concludes that transformative economic shifts have impacted young people’s emotional, physical and mental wellbeing. The Committee, which...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 11, 2024 | Briefing
THE number of nurses actively planning to leave England for better pay and conditions abroad has soared in recent years, with the number rising more than four-fold between 2018/19 and 2022/23, new official figures disclosed to the Royal College of Nursing (RCN)...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 11, 2024 | Briefing
AMNESTY International UK has sharply criticised the advertising approval agency Clearcast, for preventing Amnesty from screening adverts on human rights issues. Amnesty had sought permission to broadcast an advert purporting to be a trailer for a supposed new drama...
