by Sean Reilly | Nov 22, 2007
Campaigners have welcomed revised estimates of the global AIDS pandemic published yesterday by the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization (WHO) but cautioned that funding levels for tackling HIV/AIDS were still far too low,...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 21, 2007
Click here to visit Oxfam’s charity gifts web site Charity Oxfam have brought out a new and bigger range of charity gifts this Christmas, following the success of last year’s animal gifts. Part of the scheme to send virtual gifts to Africa and the...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 21, 2007
Churches in Bangladesh have launched a massive relief effort for victims of the devastating cyclone that has claimed thousands of lives along the country’s southwestern coast – writes Atto Ankkara. “The casualty figures do not reflect the extent of...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 21, 2007
Leading Israeli peace activist, Jeff Halper, founder and director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), arrives in the UK on Thursday 22 November, along with Palestinian Salim Shawamreh, who has had his house demolished four times by Israeli...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 20, 2007
The Christian think tank Ekklesia has renewed its call for the repeal of the UK’s archaic blasphemy law, in the wake of an attempt by an individual to seek judicial review in the High Court of a Magistrates Court’s refusal of a private prosecution against...
