by Sean Reilly | Dec 6, 2007
Workers are still paid only 5p an hour for 80-hour weeks producing clothes for leading UK retailers Primark, Tesco and Asda in Bangladesh, says a charity. This is despite the publication a year ago of a report which exposed their ‘sweatshops’. The news...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 5, 2007
The decision by the High Court not to allow a prosecution against BBC Director-General Mark Thompson, for blasphemy to go ahead has been welcomed by Christians and Humanists. Stephen Green of the group Christian Voice, had attempted to use the blasphemy law to...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 5, 2007
As Zimbabwean leader, President Mugabe, flies into Lisbon for the AU / EU Summit (7-9 December 2007), UK relief and development agency Tearfund, is urging that the talks should focus on the devastating humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe. Gary Swart, Director at...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 5, 2007
An all-volunteer group of professional, collegiate and church musicians and choir singers from seven US states will embark on December 14 for the Holy Land, to join with Israeli and Palestinian musicians to perform a progressive, four-city Christmas choir tour that...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 5, 2007
The fight against climate change has been marked by broken promises and missed opportunities, say three European bishops in a letter to political leaders to mark the opening of UN-led talks on the Indonesian island of Bali this week. “Every person on earth, both...
