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October 17, 2020

Commons passes agent crime bill without limits

The Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill, which grants every police force in Britain, MI5 and a broad range of other governmental bodies the power to authorise undercover agents to commit crimes, has passed its third reading in the Commons
March 8, 2020

Call for faith actors and secular feminists to join forces for women's rights

A new report from Christian Aid calls for people and institutions who believe in gender justice to join forces with secular feminists to protect progress on women's rights.
October 16, 2019

Children affected by conflict in Africa call on goverments to protect most vulnerable

Some five million African children have been killed by conflict-related disease or hunger in the last 20 years.
September 12, 2019

Scourge of slavery increases amid new range of global issues, says UN expert

The scourge of modern day slavery is likely to increase as a result of environmental degradation, migration and demographic shifts, UN expert Urmila Bhoola says.
May 29, 2019

Education in conflict-affected countries suffered over 14,000 armed attacks in last five years

Over the last five years, more than 14,000 armed attacks on education took place in 34 conflict-affected countries that suffer these attacks systematically, new and updated data from the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack found.
March 18, 2019

Lutherans advocate for women’s access to social protection

Lutheran women and men from around the world are taking part in the 63rd session of the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women, advocating for increased partnerships between governments and faith-based organisations to ensure social protection for women.
October 17, 2018

Mass Congolese returns from Angola could lead to a humanitarian crisis

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is concerned by a fast-developing humanitarian situation in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo sparked by mass returns from Angola over the last two weeks.
October 9, 2018

Keynote speaker at LWF Assembly jointly awarded Nobel Peace Prize

The Lutheran World Federation has congratulated physician Dr Denis Mukwege, who with human rights activist Nadia Murad, has received the Nobel Peace Prize for 2018.
August 1, 2018

Women’s Aid and Rape Crisis mount legal challenge to government’s two child tax credit limit

Requiring women to reveal a rape in order to receive subsistence benefits to which they are legally entitled is a breach of the human rights act, campaigners say.
June 15, 2018

First-ever UN human rights report on Kashmir calls for inquiry into multiple violations

There is an urgent need to address past and ongoing human rights violations and abuses and deliver justice for all people in Kashmir, says the United Nations.