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Gibril Faal: Making Diaspora Remittances Go Further

2013-06-18T11:41:47Z

Perhaps post-recession, policymakers shall have greater empathy and understanding of the compounded problems faced by developing countries. As for migrants and diasporas, the awful stench of poverty and deprivation continues to occupy their senses as they manage their new lives.

Dr Raj Persaud: Why Do Women Stay in Relationships With Violent Men?

2013-06-18T12:02:06Z

Victims of domestic abuse frequently drop legal cases if the perpetrator promises to change, suggesting emotional attachment drives unhelpful decisions. As many as 80 percent of victims 'recant', meaning they drop the charges, or deny the crime occurred.

European Parliament Web Team: World Refugees Day: Giving a Better Reception to Those Fleeing Their Homes

2013-06-19T09:27:46Z

Under the new rules asylum seekers will have a medical and psychological assessment as soon as possible, will be provided with decent detention and living conditions and have the right to apply for work nine months after lodging an asylum application.

James Mumford: All the Lonely People - The Elderly Isolation Crisis and What to Do About It

2013-06-19T10:11:20Z

In 2011 the Centre for Social Justice conducted a telephone poll, the largest of its kind, of single occupants aged 75 and over. We found that nearly a quarter of a million people - a city the size of Brighton - were to spend Christmas day alone.

Sarah Dean: Cash and Rocket Tour Reaches Italy: Stopping Traffic and Changing Lives

2013-06-19T19:00:00Z

Comments on my previous blogs from this trip have noted the tour's "carbon footprint" and how it seemed like "a holiday for rich people". But here, in the words of the women who the hundreds of thousands of pounds it has raised will affect, is why I believe raising money in style is a game-changing concept that shouldn't be sniffed at...

Niall Couper: Pushed to the Margins: Time to Stand Up for Roma

2013-06-18T19:00:00Z

This is Romania. This is modern-day prejudice. This is the life of Europe's Roma community.
Today, Amnesty International publishes a new report called 'Pushed to the margins: Five stories of Roma forced evictions in Romania'... It paints a very bleak picture.

Liz Jarvis: Nigella Lawson and Why if a Man Assaults You Then You Should Walk

2013-06-18T02:55:19Z

To me, it's simple. If a man assaults you, you walk. If he lays one finger on your kids, you walk. Of course, I'm saying that as a strong woman, and I understand many women will find themselves undermined and emotionally abused by their partners to the point where they no longer feel able to fight.

Ramesh Sharma: Seeking Land Rights for the Poor of India

2013-06-17T08:02:40Z

In India, a country heavily influenced by deep-rooted beliefs of social hierarchy, there's an incredibly strong country-wide movement lobbying to gain land rights for poor, vulnerable, and socially excluded communities such as dalits and tribals, seeking action from the government to make rights and opportunities fair.

Dr Steve McCabe: Ensuring That Real Change on International Taxation Occurs - What Can G8 Achieve?

2013-06-16T16:50:10Z

The announcement that David Cameron has been able to negotiate an agreement with all of our overseas territories and Crown territories which will mean that they sign up to a 'clampdown' on tax avoidance should be good news.

Ranvir Singh: Sierra Leone - Finding Hope in Hunger

2013-06-17T19:00:00Z

As the plane touched down in Freetown, my thoughts turned to my baby son, at home. I'd come to a country where one in five children dies before the age of five. I'd read that fact over and over again and - as I stepped onto the dusty tarmac in Sierra Leone - a mixture of guilt and relief mingled inside, knowing my own flesh and blood was healthy and safe.

HRH The Prince of Wales: Responsible Business and Enterprise

2013-06-16T19:00:00Z

All of my efforts over the past forty years have been concerned essentially with one central principle - the well-being of the individual. Not the isolated individual. My emphasis has constantly been on the individual within community. People do not thrive without the support of a community so, in my view, if the hope is that people prosper, find happiness and feel that all important sense of satisfaction and belonging, then we have to maintain the fabric of community and not let it become threadbare.

Sarah Dean: Cash and Rocket Tour, Day Two: Reaching the Right Cannes

2013-06-16T19:00:00Z

Six hours after setting off from Barcelona Team 6 reached a very sunny Cannes in the south of France. However, not everyone on the Cash and Rocket tour arrived in such good time... One team made it to Cannes swiftly, only it was the Cannes in the north of the country. It was when they started to see signs for Paris that they realised they might have gone awry.

Douglas Alexander : The G8 Summit - A Great Moment for Britain, A Great Test for the Prime Minister

2013-06-16T19:00:00Z

This summit offers the Prime Minister a chance to show Britain at its best, and the test for its success will be reaching agreement on some of the most challenging issues facing the international community. We hope he seizes that opportunity with both hands.

Allan Hogarth: It's Rotten Here in Jail

2013-06-14T19:00:00Z

I explained to them that I actually understand and agree that many of the people on whose behalf Amnesty work are probably guilty. Guilty of insulting the president, guilty of being gay, guilty of standing up for women's rights. I explained that it's often repressive laws that puts many of the people on whose behalf Amnesty work behind bars.

Martin Sadofski: When a Charity Needed to Deliver Its Message They Turned to Ray Winstone! Sorted!

2013-06-14T19:00:00Z

One company I work with is a digital brand film content outfit called Coast. They were commissioned by Prostate Cancer UK to deliver a film called Father's Day, and I wrote the script. The film is about a bunch of gangsters arranging a meeting to plan a heist. It stars A list British actors Ray Winstone.

Sarah Dean: Cash and Rocket Tour Day One: Firing up the Engine

2013-06-14T19:00:00Z

Money and power can afford you many luxuries, and one of those luxuries is being able to take four days out of your schedule to raise awareness and fundraise. And when these women (the Cash and Rocket tour), led by the super-organised Julie Brangstrup, fundraise they do it in a big way.

David Rivers: The Emerging Problem of Cyber Bullying

2013-06-12T06:42:19Z

The Internet has been a wonderful thing in terms of communication. Except that, humans have a long history of bullying each other when communicating in a variety of forms before the Internet. Yet that was a world where your only communication was via face-to-face dialogue, a letter or a phone call.

Rita Pal: The Carer's Lifeline

2013-06-13T11:07:58Z

Carers' Week runs from 10 -19 June 2013. This UK-wide annual awareness campaign is aimed at improving the lives of the country's 6.5million carers [700,000 are young carers].

Eleanor Byrne-Rosengren: Who Benefits From a Luxury Hotel in Tibet?

2013-06-13T05:49:24Z

The InterContinental Resort Lhasa Paradise will be marketed on the back of a peaceful, unspoiled land and an ancient, spiritual culture. That will doubtless attract the tourists - it also benefits the regime that has occupied and oppressed Tibet for more than 60 years.

Dan Corry: The Challenge of Judging Evidence Over Outcomes

2013-06-13T05:26:00Z

On Monday 10 June a fairly unusual awards ceremony took place. 10 youth projects, all working across the capital, were awarded up to £5,000, not in r...

Jack Monroe: 'Breadline Britain,' I Live in the Seventh Richest Country in the World

2013-06-13T19:00:00Z

Food banks are only dealing with the injuries, the deep gaping wounds left by fundamental flaws in the running of this country. They are not a solution. Children are starving, their parents are freezing. Something is wrong. To paraphrase Desmond Tutu, there comes a point where you need to stop simply pulling people out of the river, and you need to go upstream, and find out why they're falling in. There comes a point when you need to stop raging against the machine and shouting at the rain and instead, present solutions for the broken system.

Bidisha: World Hunger: Time Is Running Out

2013-06-13T19:00:00Z

In the days leading up to G8 there have been a series of focused campaigns, initiatives and events designed to raise awareness of specific policy issues which will be up for discussion at the summit. World hunger is one such issue, around which an impressively broad and powerful campaign called Enough Food For Everyone IF has mobilised, calling hunger "the great scandal of our age."

Neil Durkin: Not Normal: Invisible Detainees and Compliant Restraint

2013-06-13T19:00:00Z

As long ago as 2006 President Bush acknowledged (after lengthy rumours) that the US had transported to Guantánamo 14 "high value" detainees previously held by the CIA in a secret location. Now, seven years later, it's noticeable that Department of Defense's updates on the hunger strike at Guantánamo systematically exclude the high value detainees.

Professor Aoife Nolan: Human Rights and the FCO: A Case of Disjuncture or Dishonesty?

2013-06-12T07:46:34Z

Human rights advocates will be delighted to hear that, according to a publication issued by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as part of the UK's campaign for election to the United Nations Human Rights Council, the UK 'is a passionate, committed and effective defender of human rights.'

Jonathan Wheeler: Assessing Risk of Child Abuse Is Not a Numbers Game

2013-06-11T09:11:18Z

Gove and his department must take a serious look at their policies to prevent such cases passing through the net.