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Humanists UK and My Death, My Decision (MDMD) will be holding a rally on Parliament Square on 29 April at 15:30 to show their support for assisted dying legislation for the terminally ill and the incurably suffering. On Monday the House of Commons will be holding a Westminster Hall debate on assisted dying after an… Read more »
BASC has welcomed Defra’s announcement that the new General Licence (GL45), which governs the release of pheasants and red-legged partridges on and around certain Special Protection Areas (SPAs), is currently being reviewed. The current licence conditions are based on a medium level of risk of the occurrence of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in wild… Read more »
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The Greenpeace flagship, Rainbow Warrior, is en route to Greenland today to highlight Iceland’s resumption of whaling. The Icelandic government announced last week that it was to restart hunting whales ‘for scientific purposes’. The move bypasses the international agreement to end commercial whaling which was imposed by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in 1986. Iceland… Read more »
The Government has been told to stop locking children up in its attempts to curb asylum. Failed asylum claimants are often kept in detention centres awaiting deportation, and a report into one such centre has prompted a call for children to be released. Anne Owers, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prisons, has published a report… Read more »
