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| 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 |
| Small charities often lack necessary skills such as fundraising and lobbying and struggle to pay good enough salaries to recruit the right staff, a survey released today has found. | |
| Work/Employment | Civil Society News - 11th 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 |
| Addictive high-stake gambling machines are to blame for a high rise in reported crime at betting shops across the country, according to campaigners. A Freedom of Information request to the gambling regulator revealed that police were called out to betting shops 9,083 times last year, an increase of 1,600 incidents on 2013. | |
| Crime | The Christian Institute - 12th June 2015 |
| Medical abortions – in which the woman aborts her child by taking pills – are on the rise, according to newly released Department of Health statistics. Nearly two in every five women receiving an abortion in 2014 had had at least one previous abortion, and over 3000 abortions were performed because the child was disabled. | |
| Family | Christian Concern - 13th June 2015 |
| The Church of England is facing its sharpest decline as the number of people claiming to belong to it has dropped from 40% in 1983 to 17% in 2015, according to the results of a British Social Attitudes survey. | |
| Church | Christian Concern - 13th June 2015 |
| GPs in Belgium are deciding when their patients should die. Euthanasia is legal in Belgium for adults and ‘emancipated children’ experiencing ‘unbearable suffering’. A study suggests that Belgian GPs end patients’ lives without consent more often than with it. | |
| Health | Christian Concern - 13th June 2015 |
| Children have a ‘natural inclination for prayer’, regardless of whether their parents have an active or non-existent faith, according to new research. The study, by Christian Research for Scripture Union, maintains that children treated prayer as a conversation and expect real and immediate responses from God. Rob Powys-Smith, from Christian Research, said: ‘In each of the focus groups, we had some expectations of how the children would respond. Their expectation to have their prayers answered was a challenge to those expectations. Prayer for them seems to be a very natural part of their journey of faith, whether or not they are active church goers.’ | |
| Young People | Bible Society - 5th 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 |
| A poll by nfpSynergy has shown that just one in 17 people asked think charities should save more than a year's expenditure in reserves, while a third of people favour reserves of less than six months' spending. | |
| Money | Civil Society News - 2nd June 2015 |
| Last year, 1,027 men in London alone reported that they had suffered sexual offences. Of these, 308 men reported that they had been raped. This number is particularly alarming as experts believe only two to three per cent of men report their rapes. With the increasingly fractured nature of society, rise in family breakdown and the sexualisation of children and young people, there are now likely to be many more young men and boys vulnerable to sexual exploitation. | |
| Crime | Christian Concern - 30th May 2015 |
| Germaine Greer has criticised Elton John and David Furnish for naming David as the 'mum' on their sons’ birth certificates. She says this demonstrates how motherhood has been emptied of its meaning. She blames the fertility industry for manipulating “the process of conception”, convincing women to donate eggs by offering them discounted IVF treatments. Now, motherhood in our society means nothing more than being a “genetic mother who supplies eggs". | |
| What famous people say | Christian Concern - 30th May 2015 |
| Police in London covered up an Abort67 poster which depicted the body of an 'unwanted' 24-week-old aborted baby. Officers stood in front of the image which was part of a display near Whitehall, and was placed alongside another picture of a 'wanted' 24-week-old prematurely born baby. This raises the question: if the image of the aborted baby is too 'offensive', why is abortion legal? Ironically, the police officers' actions underline the point that abortion should be unlawful. | |
| Crime | Christian Concern - 30th May 2015 |
| Some 20 per cent of charities do not accept donations via their own websites, and 38 per cent are not able to receive text donations, according to a report from Barclays. | |
| Money | Civil Society News - 27th May 2015 |
| Almost half of people find it "very annoying" when charity fundraisers ask for money on their doorsteps or over the phone, according to a new set of survey data from nfpSynergy. | |
| Money | Civil Society News - 19th May 2015 |
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