Stay or go?: Rising seas threaten to chase people from UK coasts
Climate change impacts are speeding up coastal erosion in Britain resulting in thousands of people likely to be forced to relocate inland. But, as RACHEL PARSONS, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports some communities want to stay and invest in sea defences…
Essay: Many global corporations will soon have to police up and down their supply chains as EU human rights “due diligence” law nears enactment
RACHEL CHAMBER and DAVID BIRCHALL, in an article first published on The Conversation, look at what the new law means…
Beirut port blast: three years on, victims still await accountability
Beirut, Lebanon Reuters Lebanon on Friday marks the third anniversary of the Beirut port explosion which killed at least 220 people, wounded thousands, and damaged swathes of the city. Despite the devastation, an investigation has brought no senior official to account. Here is a summary of what happened and how the investigation has been stymied: […]
Italy approves extradition of priest wanted for murder, torture during Argentina dictatorship
Rome, ItalyAP Italy’s justice minister has approved the extradition of an Italian priest sought by Argentina on charges of murder and torture during that country’s last military dictatorship but the priest is appealing the extradition in Italian courts, a lawyer and rights groups said Thursday. Attorney Arturo Salerni, who represents Argentina, told The Associated Press […]
Sight-Seeing: Why Christians need to support diversity professionals, not demonise them
MICHELLE LOYD-PAIGE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says that even among Christians, diversity, equity and inclusion leaders find themselves isolated and unsupported…
Russian shelling hits a landmark church in the Ukrainian city of Kherson
Kyiv, Ukraine AP Russian shelling damaged a landmark church Thursday in the Ukrainian city of Kherson that until last year held the remains of Prince Grigory Potemkin, an 18th-century Russian military commander who encouraged Catherine the Great to expand the Russian Empire into what is now southern Ukraine. Ukraine’s emergency service said four of its workers were […]