Call for immediate cancellation of developing country debt payments
Over 100 organisations from around the world have called for immediate cancellation of debt payments by developing countries in response to the Covid-19 health...
Oxfam calls for $160 billion package to cancel debt and fund Coronavirus emergency
Oxfam today called for a package of nearly $160 billion in immediate debt cancellation and aid to fund a global emergency and public health...
Manchester based Charity Human Appeal launches COVID-19 emergency appeal
Manchester based Human Appeal has launched an emergency appeal to combat the spread of COVID-19 in vulnerable communities in the UK and across nine...
Pandemic is accelerating says World Health Organisation
The World Heath Organization said it had taken 67 days from the first reported case to reach the first 100,000 cases, 11 days for...
Coronavirus Latest-Trump bans travel into the United States from Europe but exempts UK
America has suspended travel for foreign nationals from the European Union to the U.S. President Trump has announced.
The ban is for 30 days and...
Coal powered energy drops world wide
Global coal-fired electricity generation fell by 3% in 2019, according to figures released today by Ember, the climate change think tank.
Though it is the...
New analysis reveals scale of destruction and displacement in Idlib
Conflict has forced nearly a million people, more than half of them children, to flee from 45 percent of Idlib governorate in North-West Syria,...
The truth about your coffee…
Channel 4’s Dispatches next Monday reveals child labour on coffee farms that supply beans to Nespresso.
George Clooney, the face of Nespresso, has praised Channel...
Manchester sends message of support to its sister City Wuhan
Manchester City Council has sent a letter of support to it's Chinese sister city, Wuhan, following an outbreak of Coronavirus.
The leader of the council...
The Doomsday Clock is now at 100 seconds to midnight
The world is closer to annihilation than it has ever been according to the Doomsday Clock, which was updated today.
That’s 20 metaphorical seconds closer...