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| A statue of a soldier kneeling before a cross has been removed from a war memorial in North Carolina following a legal threat by a secular organisation. The decision to remove the memorial was opposed by many members of the local community, including veterans, who turned out to stage a protest. | |
| Social Issues | Christian Institute - 23rd January 2015 |
| The UK’s highest court has overturned a decision affecting the case of two Roman Catholic midwives who had previously won the right to avoid supervising staff involved in abortions. Last April, judges at Edinburgh’s Court of Session ruled that Mary Doogan and Connie Wood’s conscientious objection to abortions meant that they had the right to refuse to delegate, supervise or support staff involved in abortions. But the UK Supreme court has now overturned this ruling after an appeal by NHS Great Glasgow and Clyde. | |
| Social Issues | Evangelicals Now - February 2015 |
| MPs say more needs to be done to protect dairy farmers from falls in milk prices including new powers to fine supermarkets over disputes. The Environment Food and Rural Affairs Committee said farmers were being forced out of business by factors beyond their control. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel - 21st January 2015 |
| A report released today by the National Council for Independent Action finds that charities hold back their campaigning activities over fears that they could face sanctions. | |
| Social Issues | Civil Society News - 23rd January 2015 |
| A study by the think tank Civil Exchange has found that the Big Society has failed, and the voluntary sector's influence over government has been reduced. | |
| Social Issues | Civil Society News - 20th January 2015 |
| A study undertaken in 2011 found that, in a typical month, 78% of newspaper articles were written by men, 72% of Question Time contributors were men and 84% of reporters and guests on Radio 4’s Today show were men. This year, beauty brand Dove repeated the self-esteem survey it ran 10 years ago. It found that: 69% of women don’t think they are beautiful, 41% of UK women are unhappy with their weight and body shape, compared with 36% in 2004. 1 in 5 (23%) of UK women have considered cosmetic surgery and 28% may consider it in the future. 50% of British women under 40 say social media has made them more self-conscious about their appearance. | |
| Social Issues | Christianity Magazine - November 2014 |
| Funerals are becoming so hard to afford that some people are burying relatives in their back gardens, an MP has claimed. Emma Lewell-Buck said some people were holding ‘do it yourself’ funerals because of rising costs. She proposed a bill calling for a review of costs and for providers to offer an affordable, simple service. The Labour MP for South Shields said the average funeral had reached £3,551. She added, many people were turning to Payday lenders to fund funerals and getting into “serious financial deficit”. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel - December 10th 2014 |
| Hundreds of private webcams in the UK can be accessed by anyone with an Internet connection. A Russian website has been streaming images from webcams around the world, including CCTV and baby monitors. The site, which has been operation for a month, gains access by using the default logins and passwords for the web camera. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel - November 21st 2014 |
| David Cameron says the big internet companies have a ‘social responsibility’ to act on terrorist material posted on line. It comes after a report into Fusiler Lee Rigby’s murder found one of his killers spoke on line about murdering a soldier five months before the attack. The intelligence agencies did not know about this exchange, understood to have been on Facebook until afterwards. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel - November 26th 2014 |
| A new study of the philanthropic activity of wealthy UK donors has provided clear evidence that those aged under 40 are significantly more likely to participate in socially-conscious investment than their older peers. | |
| Social Issues | Civil Society News - 9th January 2015 |
| The British Red Cross has partnered with Tesco to create a new Disaster Relief Alliance to provide financial support to areas of vulnerability before a disaster occurs. | |
| Social Issues | Civil Society News - 5th January 2015 |
| According to a new Energy Bill Revolution survey of Netmums members, over 70% are concerned for the heath of their children or elderly this winter due to cold homes, 97% believe political leaders have ‘no idea’ what it is like to live in a cold home and 1 in 5 are forced to choose between heating their homes and feeding their families. | |
| Social Issues | Netmums - 22nd December 2014 |
| The Charity Commission investigated almost 2,000 charities in the year to March 2014 and used statutory inquiry powers four times as often as the previous year, according to a report released today. | |
| Social Issues | Civil Society News - 19th December 2014 |
| The UK is in danger of drifting towards being a “police state”, one of Britain’s most senior chief constables has warned. Greater Manchester Police’s Sir Peter Fahy, who takes a lead on the Prevent counter-extremism strategy, argued that it is not the security services’ job to define the line between free speech and extremism. | |
| Social Issues | The Christian Institute - 12th December 2014 |
| New analysis suggests that churches and other places of worship are the most effective institutions in society in bringing together people of different races and social classes. The finding is based on a survey of 4,300 adults by the Social Integration Commission whose chair, Matthew Taylor, commented, "perhaps contrary to perceived wisdom, activities such as attending a place of worship or a sporting event can bring people from all sorts of backgrounds together." | |
| Social Issues | Christian Concern - 13th December 2014 |
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