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THE UPSIDE DOWN: Dead Centre – the Collective Avoidance of Dying
For most of us in the so-called developed world, death is rarely confronted head-on. At best, it’s ‘the rumble of distant thunder at a picnic’.
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New MENTAL HEALTH Review ‘has raised FALSE HOPES in Minds and Hearts of many Black People’
The Modernising Mental Health Act report fails to offer a solution to what is one of the most glaring problems in the mental health service – the vast number of Afro-Caribbeans who are sectioned compared to the majority white population.
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DISPOSSESSION: The Great SOCIAL HOUSING Swindle
For some people, a housing crisis means being denied planning permission for a loft conversion. For others, including a million plus people on the housing waiting list and an estimated 300,000 homeless people it means,quite simply, the inability to find an affordable home.
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‘WOMEN and CHILDREN will die due to funding cuts’, women’s refuges warn
Funding cuts to women’s refuges mean 95% are turning women and children away. Thousands of abused women are being turned away from domestic violence shelters because of funding cuts, according to new statistics. Figures obtained by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism show that women’s refuges have seen their budgets slashed by a whopping 24% since 2010.…
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‘Tabloid Newspapers have Distorted Human Rights’ – UN Special Rapporteur Investigating UK Poverty
UN Special Rapporteur Professor Philip Alston believes the perception that human rights are only for criminals or the most vulnerable is damaging
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Making Spice a Class A Drug won’t stop its Devastating Effects
Making Spice a Class A drug is likely to make its already devastating effects on vulnerable communities worse not better, politicians have been warned.
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1 in 5 People Targeted in IMMIGRATION Checks are BRITISH, new figures show
Home Office ‘racial profiling’ British citizens, new figures suggest
