In this issue
In this issue
- Personal Independence Payments: the 20 metre rule
- Brexit and social justice
- Low income households missing out on welfare support
- Elections provide cautious optimism for anti-austerity movement.
- New report warns against scaling back the BBC
- Mothers of young offenders call for action on prison suicides
- Reasons to be cheerful: a year after the General Election
- Christian Aid criticises Cameron over UK tax havens
- UN chief urges new compact on refugees and migrants
- Christian Aid welcomes release of new Panama Papers data
- ACT Alliance calls for commitment to democracy in Brazil
- Yemen’s food situation on verge of ‘humanitarian disaster’
- Trident replacement cost rises to ‘staggering’ £205 billion
- WCC expresses shock at attack on Syrian refugee camp
- Peace in Europe: a precious legacy demeaned
- London ceremony for International Conscientious Objectors Day
- MPs warn of murder prosecution risk for drone strikes
Friday 13 May 2016
9 May 2016
Personal Independence Payments: the 20 metre rule
In the 2012 Welfare Reform Act, the government replaced Disability Living Allowance (DLA) with Personal Independence Payments (PIP).
11 May 2016
Brexit and social justice
Since 2010, we have had a government policy of austerity for poor people. Cuts to taxes for those on high incomes have been coupled with cuts to benefits for those on low incomes.
12 May 2016
Low income households missing out on welfare support
New research by the national charity Turn2us has found that 48 per cent of low income households are not claiming the welfare benefits and tax credits they could be entitled to. This is despite the fact that 87 per cent of this group have seen no improvement to their financial situation over the last year.
6 May 2016
Elections provide cautious optimism for anti-austerity movement.
I am not affiliated to any political party and have used my vote over the last thirty years to elect candidates for a number of different parties.
11 May 2016
New report warns against scaling back the BBC
Scaling back the BBC could be “devastating” for the private sector, according to a new report commissioned by the TUC and published yesterday.
9 May 2016
Mothers of young offenders call for action on prison suicides
The families of three young men who died in Glen Parva prison have called for more action to prevent suicides as Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons published its latest inspection report on the jail.
8 May 2016
Reasons to be cheerful: a year after the General Election
This time last year, I stayed up all night with Ekklesia staff and associates as we live blogged the General Election results.
13 May 2016
Christian Aid criticises Cameron over UK tax havens
David Cameron missed his best chance to stop secrecy in UK-controlled tax havens while other world leaders announced plans to introduce public registers of company owners in their own countries, Christian Aid warned as the Prime Minister’s Anti-Corruption Summit ended.
10 May 2016
UN chief urges new compact on refugees and migrants
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for the adoption of a global compact on responsibility-sharing that collectively ensures the human rights, safety and dignity of all refugees and migrants.
11 May 2016
Christian Aid welcomes release of new Panama Papers data
Christian Aid has welcomed the release of data from the Panama Papers on 9 May 2016, which it says will help create new pressure for vital reform.
12 May 2016
ACT Alliance calls for commitment to democracy in Brazil
The international faith-based network ACT Alliance has called for substantive commitment to upholding universal democratic principles and respect for human rights as the social and political turmoil in Brazil risks worsening.
13 May 2016
Yemen’s food situation on verge of ‘humanitarian disaster’
The food security and nutrition situation in Yemen will turn into a humanitarian disaster unless urgent funding is accessible for the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to deliver timely aid, the UN agency has warned.
12 May 2016
Trident replacement cost rises to ‘staggering’ £205 billion
Campaigners have revealed that the cost of replacing Trident, Britain’s nuclear weapons system, has risen to £205 billion.
9 May 2016
WCC expresses shock at attack on Syrian refugee camp
The World Council of Churches General Secretary, the Rev Dr Olav Fykse Tveit has issued a statement urging the international community to put an end to the “culture of impunity” in Syria. The statement followed news reports from Syria of an air strike that targeted the Kammouneh Syrian refugee camp 0n 7 May 2016.
12 May 2016
Peace in Europe: a precious legacy demeaned
David Cameron has suggested that Brexit could put European peace at risk.
13 May 2016
London ceremony for International Conscientious Objectors Day
To mark International Conscientious Objectors’ Day 2016, the First World War Peace Forum will hold a ceremony of remembrance on Sunday 15 May at 12 noon in Tavistock Square, WC1.
10 May 2016
MPs warn of murder prosecution risk for drone strikes
An influential committee of Parliamentarians has called on the British Government to “urgently” clarify its legal position on drone strikes, warning that its policy “may expose…Ministers to the risk of criminal prosecution for murder.”