In this issue
In this issue
- A gay bishop and loving everyone: the dilemma of church leaders
- One in eight too ill or disabled to work by state pension age
- New book reveals how disastrous welfare policies were developed
- Mothers of young children third less likely to be in work than fathers
- UN chief calls for restraint in Gabon electoral crisis
- Irish juvenile reveals fresh abuses in Egyptian prison
- Johnson refuses to act on Briton unlawfully detained in Ethiopia
Monday 5 September 2016
4 Sep 2016
A gay bishop and loving everyone: the dilemma of church leaders
Nicholas Chamberlain, the Anglican Bishop of Grantham, has come out as gay and in a relationship, though sexually abstinent in line with church rules.
5 Sep 2016
One in eight too ill or disabled to work by state pension age
Around one in eight men and women are forced to stop working before state pension age due to ill-health or disability, according to TUC research published today.
1 Sep 2016
New book reveals how disastrous welfare policies were developed
How did Britain reach the point where thousands of seriously ill people Read more
2 Sep 2016
Mothers of young children third less likely to be in work than fathers
Women with young children are nearly a third less likely to be in work than men with children of the same age, according to new TUC analysis published today.
2 Sep 2016
UN chief calls for restraint in Gabon electoral crisis
Voicing deep concerns about the unfolding electoral crisis in Gabon, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday called for restraint and the upholding of international standards of human rights there. He expressed UN support for a transparent verification of its recent presidential election results.
5 Sep 2016
Irish juvenile reveals fresh abuses in Egyptian prison
A student from Dublin has said he is suffering fresh abuses in prison in Egypt, where he faces a potential death sentence for attending a protest.
2 Sep 2016
Johnson refuses to act on Briton unlawfully detained in Ethiopia
The Foreign Secretary has refused to request the release of a British father who yesterday (1 September 2016) spent his 800th day in unlawful detention in Ethiopia, after being kidnapped and rendered to the country by Ethiopian forces in 2014.