In this issue
In this issue
- Replacing ESA: Support needs of people with chronic illness
- Action against tax havens controlled by UK ‘long overdue’
- MPs call for lone child refugees to be reunited with parents
- TUC publishes five tests for triggering Article 50
- Violence fuels humanitarian crisis in South Sudan
- £3.3bn UK arms licences to Saudi in first year of Yemen bombing
- Japan attack demands affirmation of all human life says WCC
- Arrest warrants for 42 Turkish journalists ‘brazen purge’
- Mass hunger ‘a moral scandal’ Bread president tells Democrats
Thursday 28 July 2016
27 Jul 2016
Action against tax havens controlled by UK ‘long overdue’
The first step in Theresa May’s plan to curb companies’ use of tax havens must be long overdue action against secrecy in tax havens controlled by the UK itself, says Christian Aid.
27 Jul 2016
MPs call for lone child refugees to be reunited with parents
An influential group of MPs have backed the Refugee Council’s call for child refugees who have reached Britain by themselves to be allowed to reunite with their parents.
26 Jul 2016
TUC publishes five tests for triggering Article 50
The Trades Union Congress is today publishing five tests which it is calling on the government to apply before triggering Article 50 to take the UK out of the European Union.
28 Jul 2016
Violence fuels humanitarian crisis in South Sudan
Aid agencies have warned that South Sudan faces a spiralling humanitarian crisis as the recent surge in fighting prevents them from providing urgent help to millions of people in need.
28 Jul 2016
£3.3bn UK arms licences to Saudi in first year of Yemen bombing
Official statistics, compiled by Campaign Against Arms Trade reveal that the UK government licensed £3.3 billion worth of arms to Saudi Arabia in the first 12 months of the Saudi-led bombing of Yemen.
27 Jul 2016
Japan attack demands affirmation of all human life says WCC
A murderous attack on disabled people in Japan has brought condemnation and condolences from the World Council of Churches.
26 Jul 2016
Arrest warrants for 42 Turkish journalists ‘brazen purge’
Amnesty International has expressed concern at reports that the Turkish authorities have issued arrest warrants for 42 journalists.
28 Jul 2016
Mass hunger ‘a moral scandal’ Bread president tells Democrats
Bread for the World President, the Rev David Beckmann, addressed faith activists and delegates yesterday at the Democratic National Convention on the importance of ending hunger.