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| Days after it was suggested that the number of victims in the UK could be as high as 13,000, ‘The Joint Declaration of Religious Leaders Against Modern Slavery’ was signed. Archbishop Justin Welby said the leaders had ‘joined together for the liberation of the most vulnerable in our world’. | |
| Social Issues | Bible Society - 5th December 2014 |
| Pope Francis has told reporters that he understood the harm caused by the stereotype that linked Islam with terrorism. He said a ‘global condemnation’ of the violence would help the majority of Muslims dispel this stereotype. | |
| Social Issues | Bible Society - 5th December 2014 |
| Revd Nigel Genders, Chief Education Officer of the Church of England, has warned that British values cannot be allowed to become a test or an assessment of whether somebody in a community is ‘safe’ or ‘loyal’. His comments come in response to the Education Secretary’s call for schools to teach ‘British values’. | |
| Social Issues | Bible Society - 21st November 2014 |
| The Prime Minister's office told Nick Hurd to continue funding Big Society Network even though the then-minister for civil society had raised concerns about its poor performance and financial sustainability, the National Audit Office has found. | |
| Social Issues | Civil Society News - 28th November 2014 |
| The Charity Commission for Northern Ireland has revealed that only 1 per cent of trustees on the new register are aged 18-24, while only 1 per cent have an ethnicity other than white. | |
| Social Issues | Civil Society News - 18th November 2014 |
| People who give time to charity will "glow with happiness" for an average of 24 days afterwards, according to a study by the charity Guide Dogs. | |
| Social Issues | Civil Society News - 10th October 2014 |
| Christians Against Poverty (CAP) has released statistics which show eight per cent of people struggled to pay for hot water due to debt. Of those polled, half said they hadn't enough money to heat their home and a quarter said they couldn't always afford to cook hot meals. | |
| Social Issues | Bible Society - 26th September 2014 |
| Fewer than one in five doctors would be willing to help patients end their lives, according to a new poll. A survey of 600 doctors found that 58% are against a change in the law to allow for assisted suicide – a significant increase from the last time the survey asked the question ten years ago. Only 19% indicated they would be prepared to assist in the suicide of a patient. | |
| Social Issues | CARE - 29th August 2014 |
| CARE published new polling conducted by ComRes to coincide with Monday's debate. It showed a dramatic fall in support for the controversial three parent procedures since the previous poll in February. Support dropped from 35% in favour with 34% against in February to just 18% in favour and 46% against (which rose to 55% against in certain situations) in late August. | |
| Social Issues | CARE - 5th September 2014 |
| Volunteering is worth £34bn a year in support of public services in the UK, new research by the innovation charity Nesta estimates. | |
| Social Issues | Civil Society News - 4th September 2014 |
| Volunteering is at a ten-year high, with 26 per cent of people carrying out some volunteering in the last three months, and more men are volunteering than women, according to new research by nfpSynergy. | |
| Social Issues | Civil Society News - 5th September 2014 |
| A survey of 52 of Britain's 100 most visited attractions by charity Vitalise found 63% were not fully wheelchair-accessible. It also found that many did not train staff in disability awareness. | |
| Social Issues | BBC News - 16th August 2014 |
| Westminster City Council has asked London Zoo for a full report following concerns over animal welfare at parties known as "Zoo Lates", while a petition against the events has been signed by over 69,000 people. | |
| Social Issues | Civil Society News - 6th August 2014 |
| Often the medical community overlooks abortion as a risk factor in a woman’s physical and emotional health. One study in Finland showed that, in comparison with women in the same study who carried children to term, women who aborted were six times more likely to take their own lives through suicide. | |
| Social Issues | Families First, March/April 2014 |
| Doctors should carry out abortions even if it goes against their conscience, the Polish prime minister said in mid-June. Prime Minister Donald Tusk made the intervention after a Roman Catholic doctor refused to perform an abortion, saying: ‘Regardless of what his conscience is telling him, [a doctor] must carry out the law’. In Poland, abortion is allowed up to the 25th week of pregnancy in cases where the mother’s life is at risk, the unborn baby is seriously disabled or was conceived by rape or incest. | |
| Social Issues | Evangelicals Now, August 2014 |
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