Writing to the Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) threatened legal action against the government this week. The threats were issued as a result of governmental intentions to extend the “right to rent” checks to Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, without engaging in […]
Public News Service journalist, Daniel Heyman, was arrested this week when he attempted to question Tom Price, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), about the American Health Care Act (AHCA) at the West Virginia State Capitol. On Tuesday, Price and senior White House aide, Kellyanne Conway, paid a […]
On Monday, the US army released the last photograph taken by combat photographer, Specialist Hilda Clayton, which captured an accidental explosion in Afghanistan which killed her, an Afghan photojournalist who she was training, and three Afghan national army soldiers. On July 2, 2013, Clayton, 22, was conducting a live-fire training […]
Following a fortnight of social uproar in Pakistan in response to the lynching of a university student, Mashal Khan, police have arrested his suspected shooter. Identifying as Imran, the suspect confessed to the shooting of his classmate, Mashal, on Thursday. Both were students of journalism at the Abdul Wali Khan […]
Yet another shooting plagued America this week, with three deaths being reported at North Park Elementary School in San Bernardino, California. On Monday, two adults and one student died in a murder-suicide shooting. Cedric Anderson, 53, entered the school premises and opened fire on his estranged wife, Karen Elaine Smith, […]
“Together, we must declare that the era of allowing brutality against women and children is over.” The words of First Lady Melania Trump earlier this week sounded somewhat jarring next to the incongruous actions of her husband. In his ongoing crusade to suppress women’s rights, this week President Trump axed […]
With a year having passed since the murder of environmental activist Sikhosiphi “Bazooka” Rhadebe, the number of arrests and charges made remains unjustifiably at zero. Witnessed by his 17-year-old son at their home in Pondoland, Rhadebe was shot 8 times in the head. The brutal murder of Rhadebe and his […]
“We are the change that we seek,” we were memorably told by Barack Obama in 2008. Taking heed from this notion was a group of peaceful protesters who took part this week in “The People’s Climate Rally” in Taranaki, a region on the west coast of New Zealand’s north island. […]
An army is thriving in Jamaica, but not one whose fight is violent. Rather, the battle faced by the soldiers of the Tambourine Army is one of attaining justice and empowerment for victims of sexual abuse. Last weekend, hundreds of Jamaicans took to the streets to unite in a Survivor […]
Controversy has been reignited in Burundi following a statement from the current president, Pierre Nkurunziza, indicating that he intends to run for a fourth term “if the people request it.” In April 2015, Nkurunziza incited an uproar by announcing that he was running for a third term, despite a constitutional […]
In the midst of the largest refugee crisis the world has seen, the concerning consequences of Brexit, and the unnerving policies being implemented by the leader of the supposed “free world,” the rise of the far-Right in Europe was perhaps predictable. With a number of elections on the horizon in […]
“I want to let the action take place before the talk takes place,” President Trump told David Muir when questioned on his policy regarding the Middle East in an interview with ABC. Indicative of his unnerving approach to conflict and its resolution, this statement highlights Trump’s impulsive and unpredictable style […]
