In this issue
In this issue
- How much more political rubble in Syria?
- Student leader’s sedition charge for defending Indian Constitution
- Church of Scotland calls for positive debate on EU
- General Synod approves historic agreement between Churches
- Brazil’s ‘most corrupt politician’ targets uncontacted tribe
- US prisoner released after 43 years in solitary confinement
- Pakistan hangs 351 since 2014: only 1 in 10 ‘terrorists’
- All Our Welfare by Peter Beresford
How much more political rubble in Syria?
I still remember those young days when my maternal grandfather Ohan Tabourian used to start his early mornings by carrying his battery-fed transistor radio with him from room to room.
Student leader’s sedition charge for defending Indian Constitution
A student leader from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has been charged with sedition after refusing to give in to India’s far right.
Monday 22 February 2016
Sex and Sensibility
Church of Scotland calls for positive debate on EU
The Church of Scotland has called for a positive debate on the EU that considers its role in promoting peace, security and international cooperation.
General Synod approves historic agreement between Churches
An historic agreement recognising the longstanding ecumenical partnership between the Church of Scotland and the Church of England and paving the way for future joint working between the two churches has been backed by the General Synod.
Brazil’s ‘most corrupt politician’ targets uncontacted tribe
Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples’ rights, reveals that a rancher targeting the land of an uncontacted tribe in the Amazon is a former state deputy labelled “the most corrupt politician in Brazil.”
US prisoner released after 43 years in solitary confinement
Yesterday (19 February) the last imprisoned member of the ‘Angola 3’, Albert Woodfox, was released after more than four decades in solitary confinement, on his 69th birthday in a move Amnesty International called “long overdue and undeniably just”.
Pakistan hangs 351 since 2014: only 1 in 10 ‘terrorists’
Despite claims by the Pakistan Government that it is targeting terrorists with the death penalty, new research has shown that just one in ten of those executed since 2014 could either be linked to a proscribed terrorist organisation or were executed for offences which fit the definition of ‘terrorism’.
All Our Welfare by Peter Beresford
All Our Welfare : Towards participatory social policy by Peter Beresford