In this issue
In this issue
- Faith communities issue call to action: end AIDS by 2030
- UK training Saudi police in techniques that risk torture
- Government refuses to answer questions on Saudi police training
- Cross-party MPs urge Cameron to take leadership on global goals
- Celebrities join international call for rights of Botswana Bushmen
9 Jun 2016
Faith communities issue call to action: end AIDS by 2030
At an interfaith prayer service on 7 June 2016, people from diverse faith communities issued a call to action to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.
Thursday 9 June 2016
No Faith in Trident Day
June 27, 2016
On Monday 27th June, faith groups from across the UK will gather at Atomic Weapons Establishment Burg
8 Jun 2016
UK training Saudi police in techniques that risk torture
The UK College of Policing is teaching the Saudi Arabian interior ministry high-tech forensic skills that risk being “used to identify individuals who later go on to be tortured”, an internal police report obtained by the human rights charity Reprieve reveals.
9 Jun 2016
Government refuses to answer questions on Saudi police training
The government yesterday refused to answer questions from MPs about its controversial police training programme with Saudi Arabia.
9 Jun 2016
Cross-party MPs urge Cameron to take leadership on global goals
David Cameron helped create the Sustainable Development Goals and must now use his power to make UK government departments work towards them, a cross-party group of MPs warn in a welcome new report yesterday.
8 Jun 2016
Celebrities join international call for rights of Botswana Bushmen
A host of celebrities are supporting the campaign of Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples’ rights, for the Bushmen in the 50th anniversary year of Botswana’s independence.