I know from many visits to Northern Ireland,and from experience within our own family, that society there is still deeply divided. Government at all levels has a responsibility to help people to heal the division. I can make three suggestions for government action: 1: Work on investigating and prosecuting politically motivated crimes committed before 1994…
This 30-page document, with full footnotes and references, comes from the Association of International Development Agencies, signed by 49 of their members, and dated 13.04.15. It recalls how 60 nations met in Cairo in October 2014 and pledged $3.5 billions for reconstruction. Of this sum only $524 millions has yet been released. Qatar and Saudi…
In recent years refugees and migrants have been desperately trying to reach Europe from Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and even Morocco. In 2014 some 3400 people are thought to have drowned, even though many more were rescued from the sea. This year the pressure is likely to be even greater, because of wars in Syria, Libya,…
The Conservative Party is fishing in troubled waters by proposing new rights for tenants to buy houses and flats. It is a mistake to do this across the whole country, without regard to local needs and to the supply and demand for rented properties at affordable rents. This was why I rejected the Conservative Whip…
Khalida Jarrar , Palestinian leader, parliamentarian and feminist, has been issued a six-month administrative detention order imprisoning her without charge or trial, at the behest of the Israeli military commander in the West Bank, reported Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association – Jarrar’s lawyers – on April 5th. Take Action – demand freedom for Khalida…
