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| A physically healthy, 24-year-old Belgian woman is set to be killed this summer after concluding, "I just never wanted to live. It is not for me.” Three doctors have now agreed that the woman, identified only as Laura, should be allowed to die because of 'psychological pain', paving the way for to be killed bylethal injection under Belgium's controversial euthanasia law. She says that she hates the thought of the pain that her death will cause to those who love her. | |
| Social Issues | Christian Concern - 27th June 2015 |
| Today, the situation in Karamoja is desperate. Six out of 10 people lack access to clean water; every month half of the children suffer from diarrhoea, the third biggest killer of children under five years old. | |
| Social Issues | Inspire - March 2015 |
| Released for the Day of the African Child 2015, a new country profile on FGM in Senegal by 28 Too Many reports that an estimated 25.7% of girls and women (aged 14-59) have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM) and this figure has not changed significantly over the past ten years. This is despite Senegal having laws against FGM, high levels of public awareness of FGM, and the work of organisations and campaigners to tackle the issue. | |
| Social Issues | 28 Too Many - 16th June 2015 |
| Children's charities lost more than £150m of government funding over the past year, according to data published by Children's Partnership and NCVO. | |
| Social Issues | Civil Society News - 11th June 2015 |
| The Advertising Standards Agency received 1,047 complaints against charities in 2014 as well as 540 complaints about donations and 352 about fundraising, according to figures produced yesterday. | |
| Social Issues | Civil Society News - 5th June 2015 |
| Almost a quarter of children's centres across the UK have been forced to close or merge as a result of government funding cuts over the past five years, according to children's charity Barnardo's. | |
| Social Issues | Civil Society News - 22nd May 2015 |
| More than one million food vouchers issued were issued by the Trussell Trust over the past year, according to figures released this week. | |
| Social Issues | Civil Society News - 23rd April 2015 |
| Less than a third of charities report acceptably on public benefit and less than two thirds produced acceptable accounts over a two-year period, a Charity Commission survey of its register has found. | |
| Social Issues | Civil Society News - 27th March 2015 |
| India should not extend government job and education assistance to the country’s poorest Christians, India’s social justice minister, Thavar Chand Gehlot, has said. For one thing, he said, there are no Christians among India’s Dalits, a name given to the country’s most impoverished and marginalised citizens, sometimes called “untouchables.” For another, extending government benefits to poor Christian’s would encourage poor Hindu Indians to convert in hopes of qualifying for the programs. | |
| Social Issues | Life and Work - January 2015 |
| The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) published statistics this week from a study examining questionnaires completed by physicians in Belgium. Shockingly, the data reveals that the percentage of euthanasia deaths in Belgium increased from 1.9% of all deaths in 2007, to 4.6% of all deaths in 2013. In addition, requests for euthanasia increased from 3.5% of all deaths in 2007 to 6% in 2013. Of particular concern, the hastening of death without explicit request from the patient is an ongoing problem, accounting for 1.7% of all deaths in 2013. | |
| Social Issues | CARE Impact Direct - 20th March 2015 |
| Seventy per cent of charities responding to a survey experienced an increase in demand for services in the last 12 months, and the same number expect an increase in the next 12, according to a report released today. | |
| Social Issues | Civil Society News - 25th March 2015 |
| Significant charitable resources are being wasted on complying with the potentially "crippling" administrative burden of the Lobbying Act, according to research published today by consultancy nfpSynergy. | |
| Social Issues | Civil Society News - 16th February 2015 |
| Spending disclosed at the Church of England’s ruling General Synod shows one in four diocesan bishops still retains a personal driver. The disclosure comes 14 years after a review urged members of the episcopate to give up their chauffeurs. | |
| Social Issues | Bible Society - 13th February 2015 |
| A survey of vicars by the Church Urban Fund and the Church of England has shown that loneliness is the only issue which affects people in wealthier as well as deprived areas. It is common even in affluent middle class areas. The number of clergy reporting that social isolation is a major problem in their area has risen by ten per cent in the past three years. | |
| Social Issues | Bible Society - 13th February 2015 |
| Polling by Saga has found that a quarter of over 50s are planning an unusual send-off, with women almost 40 per cent more likely than men to break with formality. Many say they are planning fancy dress funerals, collage coffins and even burial at sea. The research also found that 37 per cent of the group are planning a humanist farewell while 21 per cent want some other form of non-religious funeral. | |
| Social Issues | Bible Society - 6th February 2015 |
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