Millions of young people, led by Sweden’s Thunberg, to strike for climate action
New YorkReuters With world leaders about to gather in New York for a UN Climate Action Summit next week, millions of young people from Australia to Iceland will take off from school or work on Friday to demand urgent measures to stop environmental catastrophe. Protests, inspired by the 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, are planned […]
KNOW IT ALL: LIECHTENSTEIN
The European principality of Liechtenstein is this year marking its 300th anniversary. DAVID ADAMS takes a look at some facts and figures…
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Just five major companies offer a year’s paid, equal parental leave
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation Just five major companies allow all mothers and fathers to share a full year of paid parental leave, a workplace equality organisation said this week, as rights groups said closing the gap would combat discrimination towards women. Aviva, British Land, Diageo, Hewlett Packard and Spotify were hailed as trailblazers in data from […]
Canada’s Trudeau apologises for dressing up in brown face, election chances could suffer
Ottawa, CanadaReuters Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologised on Wednesday for wearing brown face make-up in 2001 after an embarrassing picture emerged less than five weeks before an election in which he faces a tough fight. The image of a 29-year-old Trudeau with his face in dark make-up is a major challenge for a leader […]
Human rights threats in warming world could speed up climate action
New York City, USThomson Reuters Foundation From worsening hunger and migration to greater loss of lives and property to wild weather, climate change is driving violations of human rights – and focusing on that may be a key way to win faster climate action, rights experts said Wednesday. “Most of the states that are rather […]
HONG KONG: TROUBLED BY UNREST, RESIDENTS LOOK FOR HOMES ABROAD
CLARE JIM, SONALI PAUL and EVAN DUGGAN, of Reuters, report on how a surge in migration applications in Hong Kong suggests more locals are looking to leave amid ongoing protests…
Gang members in London find new lives in church ‘safe house’ initiative
Gang members in London are being offered the chance to change their life under a church scheme aimed at reducing knife crime in the British capital. Under the initiative, which is run by the Spac Nation Church, a series of ‘safe houses’ have reportedly been established where those wanting to leave the gangs can live […]
ESSAY: WHAT NETFLIX GOT WRONG – THE FELLOWSHIP’S MISSION IS LOVE, NOT POWER
In an article via Religion News Service, A LARRY ROSS, founder of A Larry Ross Communications and a volunteer with the international network of Fellowship friends, says the Netflix series ‘The Family’ fails to capture the spirit of love at the heart of the organisation known as the Fellowship…
LIFESTORY: DR SAID AILABOUNI – GOD IS ON THE SIDE OF “REJECTED, OPPRESSED, OCCUPIED”
In the first of a two part article first published in whole on the World Council of Churches’ website to mark the World Week for Peace in Palestine and Israel this week, IVARS KUPCIS speaks with Palestinian Rev Dr Said Ailabouni, programme director for Europe and Middle East with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, about his […]