On Monday 20 April the Immigration Bill returned to the British parliament for its Second Reading in the House of Commons – offering MPs their first chance to debate the bill. The bill had originally been scheduled to return in April, but was held back as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. It was very much a case of delayed rather than dead, and late last week the UK Government’s … Read more →
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Locust threat extends to new areas
Locust swarms are continuing to pose an enormous, immediate threat to food security and livelihoods in east Africa. In addition, the Indo-Pakistan border area, Sudan, and perhaps the Sahel of West Africa also face an impending invasion from spring breeding areas according to the latest update from the … Read more →
Iran sentences French-Iranian academic to six years in prison on bogus national security charges
Iran has sentenced Fariba Adelkhah, a French-Iranian academic who has been detained in the country for almost a year, to a maximum of six years in prison on charges of “colluding with the aim of breaching national security” and spreading “propaganda against the system”. Fariba, 61, is an anthropologist and researcher at Sciences Po university in Paris, specialising in Shiite Islam. She has been held in Evin prison, north of … Read more →
Covid-19: What is going on in Belarus?
Since the World Health Organisation declared Covid-19 a pandemic, few countries have chosen to ignore social distancing recommendations. But, even among those states which have, the Belarusian official response to its epidemic remains unique. While Europe’s last dictator, President Alexander … Read more →
OPINION: Hundreds of child migrants are being expelled from the U.S. under the guise of protecting public health
The United States government has cited limiting the spread of the coronavirus as justification for using an emergency declaration to expel young migrants and asylum seekers from the country – with 600 minors having been … Read more →
The UN warns 6,000 children could die every day in worst crisis for children since the Second World War
As many as 6,000 children around the world could die every day from preventable causes over the next six months due to the impact of coronavirus on routine health services, the UN has warned. This projected figure threatens to reverse nearly a decade of progress on ending preventable child deaths according to UNICEF. “This pandemic is having far-reaching consequences for all of us, but it is undoubtedly the biggest and … Read more →