Encouraging Action for Peace
Three events successfully brought people from Birmingham together to take action for a Low Carbon Future. Now all eyes turn to Paris, as world leaders arrive there for the COP21 Climate Summit. On Saturday 28th November, members of Birmingham’s faith communities came together for a walk & gathering in support of a low carbon future. […]
Analysis published by the Office of National Statistics this week reveals the large number of UK jobs that in 2014 paid less than the Living Wage (at that time £7.65 per hour outside London*). ONS have produced a handy map below, which breaks down the number of jobs that do not pay enough to live on, […]
Why is Peace Hub focussing on Economic Equality in this time of austerity? Does Equality really make society better? We investigate: If you add up all the money that is spent each ¼ year, you get a number economists call Gross Domestic Product (GDP). When GDP increases from one ¼ year to the next, this […]
We’ve recently recieved a circular email highlighting the low state pension, and laudibly calling for it to be raised, but sadly blaming the situation on refugees. It’s a timely example of the negative attitudes and misconceptions faced by asylum seekers and refugees. People are understandably worried about pensioner poverty, just as they are about jobs, […]
In the second of his artcles looking at asylum & refugee issues, our volunteer Richard looks behind the headlines, to find the true facts & figures. “The last few years have seen major conflict and humanitarian crises take place across the world, from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan to the Central African Republic and Darfur. As […]
Over the coming weeks Richard, one of our volunteers, will be uncovering the facts about asylum seekers & refugees. Today he explores why it’s so important to understand what’s really going on: “Martin Luther King once said that “a great nation is a compassionate nation”. A poll conducted by YouGov in June 2014 suggests the […]
An interesting article by Edward Robinson was published on the New Internationalist blog last week, detailling how a recent parliamentary inquiry into Britain’s arms exports found that the criterion for embargoing arms has been relaxed in recent years. The nub of the matter is that, instead of the refusing an arms export licence where there […]