by Sean Reilly | Jul 9, 2008
The Methodist Conference has condemned the UK government’s failure to care for Zimbabwean refugees and is urging the Government to immediately stop all deportations to Zimbabwe and grant indefinite ‘right to remain’ to Zimbabwean refugees. The Conference expressed...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 9, 2008
Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that Robert Mugabe’s regime was ‘illegitimate’ and had ‘blood on its hands’. He was speaking at the close of the three-day G8 Summit in Hokkaido, Japan, today. There should be “no safe haven, no place to hide for the criminal cabal...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 9, 2008
Money given by wealthy nations to help the developing world combat climate change should not be administered by the World Bank, says the UK-based international development agency Christian Aid. The NGO says it should instead be handled by the United Nations Framework...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 8, 2008
The Pentagon has announced that the US military will continue to use and export even the most unreliable cluster bombs over the next decade. The policy decision comes shortly after 111 countries, including major NATO allies, agreed to a global treaty banning cluster...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 8, 2008
Organisers of an anti-violent crime conference being held in Brixton on Saturday have welcomed the Archbishop of York’s comments that the Church of England should be reaching out to young people in knife crime. During his address to the Church of England’s...