Israel Folau says to head to court after conciliation hearing fails
Sydney, Australia Reuters Sacked Australia fullback Israel Folau is set to take his legal fight against Rugby Australia to court after emerging “very disappointed” from a failed conciliation hearing at the Fair Work Commission in Sydney on Friday. Folau and his legal team met with RA in the first formal step of his unfair dismissal […]
AFRICA: WINDS OF CHANGE BLOW AT CONTINENT’S LARGEST ECUMENICAL BODY
FREDRICK NZWILI, in an article first published on the World Council of Churches’ website, looks at the changes taking place within the All Africa Council of Churches…
Cocoa-growing Ivory Coast draws up new plan to stop child labour
Dakar, SenegalThomson Reuters Foundation Ivory Coast has launched a new strategy to end child labour in cocoa farming and other sectors by raising women’s incomes and building schools, the government said on Wednesday. The plan is more wide-reaching than previous ones and aims to tackle household poverty as the root cause of child labour, said […]
ESSAY: SEEING JESUS IN THE MIGRANTS AT THE BORDER
Following publication of a harrowing image of a dead father and daughter this week, US Southern Baptist pastor, author and refugee advocate ALAN CROSS, in an article first published by Religion News Service, reflects on the crisis unfolding on the US-Mexico border…
OPEN BOOK – PAUL’S GALATIAN LETTER: GETTING ALONGSIDE ONCE MORE
BRUCE C WEARNE looks at a change of tone midway through Galatians, chapter four…
Myanmar must give Rohingya ‘pathway to citizenship’ – UN investigator
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation Myanmar must grant citizenship to stateless Rohingya with roots in the country, a senior UN investigator said on Wednesday, as she urged the country’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi to “be the democrat she once told us she was”. Buddhist-majority Myanmar does not recognise the Muslim Rohingya as citizens despite a long […]