Micah welcomes Green’s policy to increase foreign aid to 0.7 per cent
Micah Australia has welcomed an announcement by the Australian Greens of a policy which would lift the country’s overseas aid budget to 0.7 per cent of gross national income over the next 10 years. Ben Thurley, Micah Australia’s national coordinator, welcomed the move and urged the Greens to negotiate with other parties to implement the […]
UN REPORT CALLS FOR INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT TO INVESTIGATE “CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY” IN ERITREA
A new report from the United Nations says “systematic, gross and widespread crimes against humanity”, including abuses of religious freedom, have been committed in Eritrea and should be investigated by the International Criminal Court. Only four religious denominations are tolerated in Eritrea: Eritrean Orthodox, Catholicism, the Lutheran church and Sunni Islam. All other denominations are […]