In this issue
In this issue
- UN humanitarian aid reaches five besieged Syrian towns
- The Welfare Trait
- Students call for better higher education access for refugees
- Decision day in Oxfordshire – will the Council be able to ratify its budget?
- Ban on ethical choice undemocratic say Quakers in Britain
- PCS union invites its members to join Stop Trident demo
- TUC welcomes Bruce Carr’s concerns over Trade Union Bill
- US Defence Secretary admits British nukes are not independent
- Quakers urge government to back peer mediation
- Kidnapped Briton spends 600th day in illegal detention
- Amnesty calls on Russian and Syria to end hospital attacks
- WCC welcomes meeting of Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill
- UN reports record high casualities in Afghanistan during 2015
- UN health agency launches global response to Zika virus
- A death in Georgia that diminishes us all
UN humanitarian aid reaches five besieged Syrian towns
As United Nations relief wing convoys reached five besieged towns in Syria with aid yesterday (17 February), the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for the country announced that a task force will meet for a second time to discuss humanitarian access issues.
The Welfare Trait
A talk on “how state benefits can ‘warp’ the personalities of the unemployed” was Read more
Thursday 18 February 2016
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Students call for better higher education access for refugees
University students and young adults have called for greater access to higher education for refugees and asylum seekers.
Decision day in Oxfordshire – will the Council be able to ratify its budget?
As I was heading home from London yesterday, I received a text from my husband Chris, about a tweet from BBC Radio Oxford.
Ban on ethical choice undemocratic say Quakers in Britain
Government plans to ban local councils from making ethical choices in their pension investments and procurements are undemocratic, say Quakers in Britain.
PCS union invites its members to join Stop Trident demo
The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) has backed a major anti-Trident demonstration which is due to take place in central London on 27 February.
TUC welcomes Bruce Carr’s concerns over Trade Union Bill
The TUC has welcomed comments by Bruce Carr QC that the Trade Union Bill is a threat to industrial relations and civil liberties.
US Defence Secretary admits British nukes are not independent
The US Defense Secretary has effectively admitted that the UK’s Trident nuclear weapons system is not independent.
Quakers urge government to back peer mediation
The Peer Mediation Network has called on Nicky Morgan, Secretary of State for Education, to take steps to promote the comprehensive provision of conflict resolution education in schools.
Kidnapped Briton spends 600th day in illegal detention
A British father of three who was kidnapped to Ethiopia in 2014 has spent his 600th day in detention.
Amnesty calls on Russian and Syria to end hospital attacks
Attacks on at least two medical facilities in Syria yesterday (15 February) are just the latest of scores of apparently deliberate attacks on hospitals, clinics and medical personnel being committed in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law, says Amnesty International .
WCC welcomes meeting of Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill
The General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, the Rev Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, has issued a statement on behalf of the Council hailing the historic meeting of Pope Francis, pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, and Patriarch Kirill, primate of the Russian Orthodox Church.