“No child will ever go hungry”. This was what the UK Government said with regards to their plans to “end child food poverty” during the Covid pandemic. However, MPs and government officials have already broken their promise and left thousands of children and families neglected… again. Back in October various
On November 24 2020, Scotland made a historic move to end period poverty for women and girls throughout the country, the Scotsman reports. M.P.S. unanimously voted to provide free access to tampons and sanitary pads to all those in need after a long-running campaign. Two years ago, Scotland made history
Seven children dead and 12 injured in “dastardly act of wickedness.” This is how the Prime Minister of Cameroon, Joseph Dion Ngute, described the school massacre in Kumba, Cameroon, reports CNN. Joseph tweeted on Sunday saying, “I bow before the memory of these innocent kids. I urge all Cameroonians to
Inherited privilege allows some men and women to accumulate influence, stature, and wealth, reinforcing beliefs of entitlement. This privilege is normalized, maintained and internalized successfully via institutions such as the police, the criminal justice system and educational systems. However, as we witness the protests lead by the Black Lives Matter
A 25-year-old man, Ahmaud Arbery, was shot and killed in February whilst out jogging in a residential neighbourhood in the small city of Brunswick, Georgia. However, only now has outrage ensued from more people, after a video purported to show the shooting emerged online on Tuesday, the BBC reports. The
In 2012, Prince Kwabena Fosu died at an immigration centre. The inquest this week found that his death was partly due to ‘gross failure’ by agencies at the centre, reports the BBC. Neglect and failures by the Home Office contributed to the mentally ill Ghanaian man’s death from hypothermia, dehydration
In 2002, 16-year-old Paola Guzmán Albarracín, an Ecuadorian schoolgirl, took her own life after being sexually abused by her deputy head teacher whom she asked for academic help. He was 65 years old at the time, The Guardian reports. Now 17 years later, an International court is hearing this case
On the 30th October the public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire was released, with the report finding that the 72 people who perished could have been saved if the London fire brigade had evacuated earlier, The Guardian reports. The Commons leader, Jacob Rees-Mogg then appeared on the radio station
In the early hours of Saturday morning, a black woman was shot and killed in her own home by a white police officer who was responding to a welfare check, after a neighbour called a non-emergency police number to report that her door was open at night—reports CNN. Atatiana Jefferson,
According to the UN Refugee Agency, there are approximately 70.8 million forcibly displaced people worldwide. Among them are nearly 25.9 million refugees, over half of whom are under the age of 18. One community embroiled within these bleak statistics are the Rohingya people. A predominantly Muslim minority from Myanmar, also
On Tuesday, Walmart announced that they would discontinue sales of ammunition for handguns and various assault-style rifles in stores across the United States, reports Al Jazeera. This reduction in gun and ammunition sales is welcomed news by many, as it is one month after more than 20 people were killed
Days ago, new prime minister Boris Johnson made a controversial decision to suspend both the Commons and Lords for more than a month in the run-up to the date of EU withdrawal – reports the Independent. The decision was approved by the Queen at a private session of the Privy
On August 13th, indigenous women united in a historic march in Brazil, in a demonstration of feminine unity and to continue the indigenous movement across the Amazon, as reported by Amazon Frontlines. As the Amazon continues to burn, causing unimaginable deforestation, and with Brazil this week sending their army in
On Saturday, 500 far-right supporters traveled from around the country to Portland, Oregon, organized by leaders in the ‘‘western chauvinist’’ Proud Boys fraternity, marching to ‘‘end domestic terrorism,’’ reports the Guardian. This demonstration was the largest the county has seen of the Trump era, with the Proud Boys group rubbing
On Saturday 3rd August, the toll of mass shootings in the United States of America increased to a devastating 254 when twenty-two innocent civilians were brutally shot and killed at a shopping complex in El Paso, Texas – reports the Independent. One day after this attack, some 13 hours later,
On Wednesday of this week, a campaign in Beijing ordered restaurants and food stalls to remove Arabic script and symbols associated with Islam to ensure religions are conforming to mainstream Chinese culture, reported Al Jazeera. One manager, who spoke to Al Jazeera, stated that Government officials said, “[…] this is
On Monday, Al Jazeera reported that in the central region of the Maharashtra state in India, the city of Beed has performed more than 4,500 unnecessary hysterectomies over the past three years. A farmer and a mother of two known as Pushpa was 26 years old when she experienced heavy
At the beginning of this week, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was transferred to the psychiatric ward of a hospital in Tehran. She was transferred from Evin prison to Imam Khomeini hospital – as reported by Al Jazeera. The campaign ‘Free Nazanin’, which is led by her husband Richard Ratcliffe released a statement
The opening ceremony of the European Parliament on July 2nd, 2019, saw MEPs from Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party turning their backs on the European Union’s national anthem, ‘Ode to Joy’. Farage quickly turned to Twitter to state that the new group had “[…] already made its presence felt” and that
Last week, ministers rejected recommendations from MPs to add a 1p charge to each garment sold, in order to raise £35m a year to reduce the environmental costs of ‘fast fashion’. Fast fashion is used to describe an increasingly accelerated fashion empire that focuses on low costs and speed in
