Upcoming events
Sex and Sensibility
February 23, 2016
SEX AND SENSIBILITY: SALLY HITCHINER AND PETER TATCHELL IN CONVERSATION 23rd February, 6.30pm, Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, 235, Shaftesbury Avenue, London WC2H 8EP.
Symon Hill Book Tour
January 20, 2016
We are delighted to be hosting the London leg of Ekklesia associate Symon Hill’s new book “The Upside Down Bible” which is published by Darton, Longmann and
Transform Now Ploughshares Talk
January 23, 2016
Thursday 14 January 2016
13 Jan 2016
Intelligence Committee denied access to drone strike information
Members of the UK’s Parliamentary intelligence watchdog will not be allowed access to all intelligence or defence information relating to the new British practice of targeted killing by drone, the Prime Minister has said.
13 Jan 2016
Howard League responds to Panorama’s Medway investigation
The Howard League for Penal Reform responded yesterday (12 January) to an investigation by the BBC television programme Panorama into allegations of child abuse at Medway Secure Training Centre in Kent.
13 Jan 2016
First-hand UN accounts of desperation in besieged Syrian towns
United Nations officials have given on-site accounts of the “horrible and terrible” situation in the besieged Syrian town of Madaya.
14 Jan 2016
Arrest of Raif Badawi’s sister ‘attempt to intimidate activists’
The arrest of Samar Badawi, a prominent human rights defender and sister of jailed blogger Raif Badawi, is the latest example of Saudi Arabia’s utter contempt for its human rights obligations, says Amnesty International.
14 Jan 2016
Taxes for Peace Not War – a new bill to go before Parliament
March 2nd 2016 marks 100 years since all unmarried men aged 18-41 were deemed to have enlisted in the British Army as a consequence of the 1916 Military Service Act, which simultaneously
12 Jan 2016
Our government is failing to uphold our human right to food
Enough is enough. We can no longer toleratefamilies going hungry in the seventh wealthiest nation on the planet.