Liberty challenges ‘disproportionate’ criminal records disclosure
The civil liberties and human rights organisation Liberty will today launch a legal challenge to the Government’s criminal records disclosure scheme, which forces people with more than one conviction to divulge them forever when applying for certain types of work, regardless of individual circumstances or the minor nature of the offences.
This will not be our finest hour: the dangerous rhetoric of war
We have to hope that committing a country’s armed forces to acts of war is one of the hardest decisions a politician ever has to make and one which makes the greatest demand on conscience.
UN chief welcomes climate summit $5 billion Africa plan
The UN and its partners have launched a $5 billion initiative to expand renewable energy capacity in Africa as the Secretary-General told the UN climate change conference (COP21) in Paris that saving energy is a triple-win in the battle against global warming.
