http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.ukJustice and Peace, Scotlanden-GBCopyright &copy; 2011-2012 Justice &amp; Peace Scotlandtaqthost-justiceandpeacescotland@taqt.co.ukSomalia's warring parties have all failed to protect Somali children from the fighting or serving in their forces, Human Rights Watch said in a report...Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:32:22 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=420&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=420&amid=531 E mail Action . We have an opportunity at the Westminster Parliament to further one of the core aims of the Fairtrade Scho...Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:20:43 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=419&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=419&amid=531 Tar sands produce 3-5 times the carbon emissions associated with crude oil production, bad news for a low carbon economy. Yet the UK Government, un...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:47:09 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=418&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=418&amid=531 The government has lost a record eighth vote in the House of Lords over its plans to severely cut and restructure the British welfare system. An am...Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:06:45 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=417&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=417&amid=531Britain will resume enforcing the return of failed asylum seekers to Zimbabwe, the Government has said. The move comes after asylum judges ruled there...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=208&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=208&amid=531We did it! Together we've just won our campaign for the UK to sign up to a new European law to tackle human trafficking. Thousands of you have taken a...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=210&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=210&amid=531Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=209&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=209&amid=531George Osborne has completely failed to acknowledge the genuine hardship that millions of people in this country are now facing. The Budget speech did...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=213&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=213&amid=531Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=212&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=212&amid=531The Government has announced that it’s going to make the Vulture Funds law permanent. Many of you campaigned very hard to get this law passed in...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=215&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=215&amid=531Pope Benedict XVI issued an urgent appeal yesterday, for military and political leaders to consider the safety of civilians during the attack on...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=214&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=214&amid=53110 actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated in March 2011, according to the latest issue of the International Crisis Grou...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=216&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=216&amid=531In the face of sweeping public spending cuts and a UK government economic strategy which targets the poor to pay for a crisis produced by the wealthy,...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=218&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=218&amid=531Home Alone: End Domestic Slavery campaign is gearing up for its most crucial time - the International Labour Conference in Geneva in June - where gove...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=224&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=224&amid=531ForcesWatch is a new network that challenges the ethics of military recruitment and questions government initiatives, such as Armed Forces Day, which ...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=223&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=223&amid=531A Honduran palm oil company is looking for funds from the carbon markets even though they have been implicated in 16-25 assassinations of peasants in ...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=222&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=222&amid=531The announcement by the Coalition Government back in May 2010 that it would be ending the detention of children for immigration purposes was widely we...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=221&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=221&amid=531Shami Chakrabarti, director of human rights organisation Liberty, called on Scots to ‘set an example of welcome’ to refugees from across t...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=220&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=220&amid=531Scotland's religious leaders have described the West's failure to help developing nations cope with climate change as a "moral outrage".Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=219&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=219&amid=531The Closing Gathering of the Poverty Truth Commission took place on Saturday afternoon in front of an audience of more than 350 people. A full copy of...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=227&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=227&amid=531 Here at the gates of Faslane, there is no better place to say that it is not courageous of Britain to have these dreadful weapons of massdestructio...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=228&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=228&amid=531Church leaders in Ivory Coast say they are preparing to respond to urgent humanitarian needs as the country adjusts to the deposition of former dictat...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=234&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=234&amid=531Children are being held overnight in "degrading" conditions at Heathrow Airport, a watchdog has warned. The airport independent monitoring board (IMB)...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=233&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=233&amid=531Government 'Big Society' rhetoric is toothless and may be used to wash ministerial hands of responsibility for the impact of spending cuts, the Cathol...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=232&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=232&amid=531 Contact details for candidates in the Scottish election and initial responses to the survey on Trident ha...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=231&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=231&amid=531The Home Office has cut advice and reception services for newly arrived asylum seekers by more than 60% . Br Stephen Power from Jesuit Refugee Service...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=235&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=235&amid=531Anti-Slavery International’s latest research shows the continuation of child trafficking, a form of modern slavery, to cocoa farms in the Ivory ...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=237&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=237&amid=531“May the splendor of Christ reach the peoples of the Middle East,” the Pope prayed, after proclaiming the joy of the Resurrection. He call...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=236&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=236&amid=531In a world where any level of state violence is deemed acceptable (so long as it’s ours) it is good to find a dissenting voice to the unholy myt...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=241&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=241&amid=53150,000 civilians flee Somalia in first quarter, double from a year earlier The UN refugee agency said Friday that an increasing number of Somali...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=240&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=240&amid=531Email the Treasury now asking it to support strong and effective regulation to stop banks from betting on hunger. The Treasury is the government depar...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=246&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=246&amid=531Since the recession hit, a third of families are now spending more each month than they have coming into their households. Four in 10 Britons are worr...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=245&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=245&amid=531The widespread and growing use of immigration detention has come under considerable scrutiny in recent years on pragmatic (practical and functional) a...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=244&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=244&amid=531"HIV patients at a London hospital have in effect been imprisoned following a move by immigration officials to secure the sexual health unit, NHS cons...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=243&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=243&amid=531Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=242&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=242&amid=531An increasing number of parties to armed conflicts around the world are deliberately attacking schools or forcing them to close in a disturbing and gr...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=248&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=248&amid=531The Home Secretary is resisting calls from Italy, which has borne the brunt of thousands of refugees crossing the Mediterranean, for other EU countrie...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=247&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=247&amid=531As with countless countries around the world that have a wealth of natural resources, Zambia’s mineral riches won’t last forever. Men and ...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=249&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=249&amid=531The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament condemned the decision to authorise billions of pounds of further spending on the Trident replacement programme, ...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=252&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=252&amid=531Church action on Poverty are working in partership with Co-operatives UK to promote this year's Co-operatives Fortnight. Co-operatives UK share Church...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=253&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=253&amid=531The hidden world of child sexual exploitation hit the headlines last week, with the announcement by children's minister Tim Loughton of a new action p...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=255&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=255&amid=531The report is based on detailed research into the cases of 82 families with 143 children who were detained during 2009, and uses data from 82 clients'...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=254&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=254&amid=531The number of applications for asylum, excluding dependants, was 11 per cent higher in Q1 2011 (4,845) compared with Q1 2010 (4,355). This represents ...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=257&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=257&amid=531Dave Prentis, UNISON General Secretary has written to the Acting Chief Executive of the UK Border Agency (UKBA), warning over the dangers of cut...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=256&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=256&amid=531The latest issue of Nuclear Free Scotland looks at the opportunities presented by the results of the Scottish election and includes articles from MSPs...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=261&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=261&amid=531As reports by Human Rights Watch and formal documentation from the UN Human Rights Commission decry the worsening human rights situation in Côte...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=260&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=260&amid=531As US troops are primed to leave Iraq and the situation in Iraq's disputed territories remains unresolved, the likelihood of escalating tensions along...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=258&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=258&amid=531At least 70 Iraqi refugees have been rounded up in the UK over the last few weeks, as the UK government plans a controversial mass deportation charter...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=263&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=263&amid=531Scottish parliament urged to implement marine protected areas Green MSP Alison Johnstone has urged the Scottish Parliament to back calls ...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=262&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=262&amid=531The Refugee Council supports Outcry! and is calling on the Government to urgently end child detention and put children's welfare at the heart of asylu...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=269&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=269&amid=531The Refugee Council is calling for people who’ve waited more than six months for a decision on their asylum claim, and people who’ve been ...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=268&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=268&amid=531A major inquiry into human trafficking will be launched this week amid claims that slavery remains as much of a problem in modern Britain as when it w...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=267&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=267&amid=531European Governments: "Their silence and passivity are difficult to accept. When preventing migrants from coming has become more important than saving...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=266&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=266&amid=531The Trident 'initial gate' report has announced that the expected cost of building the new nuclear weapon submarines <a href="http://www.cnduk.org/ind...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=272&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=272&amid=531Just last week, the International...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=271&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=271&amid=531Ministers have been warned by an official immigration watchdog of the "excessively long" periods, including cases of more than three years, that detai...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=270&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=270&amid=531Peace activists convicted for nuclear protest at AWE Aldermaston Three Christian peace protesters were convicted on 21 June at Newbury Magistrates Cou...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=273&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=273&amid=531Peace campaigners across Britain have been remembering anti-war activist Brian Haw, who died of cancer at the weekend. They want a permanent memorial ...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=276&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=276&amid=531International lawyers have identified an existing but previously unacknowledged requirement in law for those who use or authorise the use of drone str...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=275&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=275&amid=531Britain's ongoing operations against Muammar Gaddafi have cost around £260 million, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed. By Alex Stevenson at ...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=279&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=279&amid=531There are lass than 400 days to go until the London Olympic games. Yet for workers in Indonesia production is ramping up, pressure is mounting, and th...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=278&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=278&amid=531Lawyers acting on behalf of Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) have written to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) laying...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=282&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=282&amid=531National figures indicate the silent crisis of the 42% (5,000,000) children who are not in school due to poverty and vulnerability and an acute shorta...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=281&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=281&amid=531Women and children who it is suspected have been trafficked into the UK should no longer be treated as criminals, according to new guidance to prosecu...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=287&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=287&amid=531Women and children who it is suspected have been trafficked into the UK should no longer be treated as criminals, according to new guidance to prosecu...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=286&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=286&amid=531A new short film made to mark the anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention The film was made in early 2011 by six men and women from across th...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=285&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=285&amid=531Community leaders in countries including Nepal, Bangladesh, Mozambique and Yemen have written to British cabinet ministers Chris Huhne and Andrew Mitc...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=284&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=284&amid=531Channel 4 recently screened a Dispatches documentary, The Real Price of Gold. You can watch again online and see some of the issues with the gold that...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=289&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=289&amid=531During July the Government released its long-awaited anti-trafficking strategy, but charities including Anti-Slavery International, have warned that i...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=294&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=294&amid=531Scottish Churches Housing Action announced details of a seminar on 30 September 2011 to bring housing professionals and activists together to assess p...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=293&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=293&amid=531Parts of Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia are facing one of the worst droughts for 60 years, and nearly 12 million people are desperately in need of food, ...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=292&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=292&amid=531Letters to the Guardian on the 60th anniversary of the signing of the refugee convention. Wednesday 27 JulyFri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=291&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=291&amid=531 When the government announced last year that it would <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/dec/16/nick-clegg-childre...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=290&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=290&amid=531A recent survey shows that 81% of Scottish people polled were aware of Fair Trade products, above the UK average of 77% who are aware of the Fairtrade...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=302&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=302&amid=531The UN Security Council's response to the recent bloodshed in Syria is deeply inadequate, Amnesty International says, after the council released a sta...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=301&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=301&amid=531Excellent defence of fair trade by <a href="http://www.heraldscotland.com/comment/herald-letters/fairtrade-won-t-end-poverty-but-it-is-a-step-in-the-r...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=299&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=299&amid=531They came from all corners of the world: Hungary, Cyprus, Uganda, Ghana, Kosovo and Liberia. Britain was their sanctuary, a safe haven from the violen...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=304&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=304&amid=531Bangladesh and India: Floods and landslides displace 200,000 people in north-east India and 150,000 in south-east Bangladesh. China: Natural disasters...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=303&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=303&amid=531This month Church Action on Poverty are calling on you to speak out about legal loan sharks where you live as thousands of low-income famili...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=308&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=308&amid=531President Aquino came into power a year ago. Since then, his military has been linked to the murder of seven activists and the disappearance of three ...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=307&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=307&amid=531Government forces in Ivory Coast have been accused by the United Nations of a spate of extra-judicial killings targeting supporters of former presiden...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=306&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=306&amid=531In a bid to break the silence around violence against children, Tanzanian authorities launched a five-year plan on 9 August to eliminate all forms of ...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=305&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=305&amid=531Urgent Request from Anti Slavery InternationalFri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=309&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=309&amid=531Ask your MP to complete the poverty survey To mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (17 October) this year, the All-Party Parliamn...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=311&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=311&amid=531A children's charity has come under fire for its role supporting families held while awaiting deportation. Rosie Scammell, Guardian. Tuesday 23 August...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=312&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=312&amid=531With less than a year to go before the start of the London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games, Anti Slavery are launching a new campaign for a Slaver...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=317&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=317&amid=531THE number of children being brought up in Scottish households where no adults are working has increased. Under-16s living in homes without adults wit...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=322&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=322&amid=531The UK government exports arms to Algeria, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates; Put your MP to work demand they sign EDM ...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=324&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=324&amid=531In response to a previous article on complaining to the media, Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) were asked to provide ammunition in ...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=327&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=327&amid=531The importance of the work of human rights defenders is recognised in international conventions. The UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders lists se...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=326&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=326&amid=531Labour's Shadow Trade Minister Wilf Stevenson has said it is "completely bonkers" that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) effectively lobbies within govern...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=330&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=330&amid=531"Among the many things that Liberal Democrats can be proud of when squaring up to their critics, Clegg told delegates, was that child detention has &l...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=331&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=331&amid=531Reports from the BBC's Uzbek service and other Uzbek news sources confirm that the 2011 cotton harvest has started and yet again children and adults a...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=333&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=333&amid=531One of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winners, Leymah Gbowee, a Liberian activist who helped bring her country out of a brutal civil war, says that the be...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=335&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=335&amid=531The Scottish Government has published their <a href="http://www.stopclimatechaos.org/11/sep/draft-budget-fails-adequately-fund-climate-change-action" ...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=334&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=334&amid=531Graeme Morrice, MP for Livingston, has tabled Early Day Motion 2205 calling on parliament to support the aims of debt week and push for the cancellati...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=337&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=337&amid=531Article by Amelia Gentleman, Guardian.co.uk, Monday 17 October 2011 "After promising last year to end child detention in failed asylum cases &nd...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=339&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=339&amid=531Burma's armed forces have committed serious abuses against ethnic Kachin civilians in renewed fighting in Kachin State, Human Rights Watch said today....Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=338&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=338&amid=531Jubilee Debt Campaign: Comedian and activist Mark Thomas narrates their new short film explaining how Britain’s Dodgy Deals continue to res...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=342&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=342&amid=531The United Nations independent expert on the situation of human rights in Iran today voiced concern over alleged violations in the country's judicial ...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=341&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=341&amid=531Asylum Procedures and Reception Conditions Directives. House of Commons / 13 Oct 2011Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=340&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=340&amid=531In May 2010 the Government announced that it would end the immigration detention of children. But between May 2011 and the end of August 2011, 697 chi...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=343&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=343&amid=531The Pontifical Council for Justice & Peace has just published a document about Reforming the International Financial and Monetary Systems in ...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=345&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=345&amid=531Victims of human trafficking who end up in the UK could be forced to claim asylum to stay in the country, the general secretary of the Immigration Law...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=344&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=344&amid=531Newly uncovered documents by Jubilee Debt Campaign reveal that Vince Cable’s Department for Business is still demanding money from the Egyptian ...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=348&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=348&amid=531Campaigners calling for justice for countries already suffering the impact of climate change will next month embark on a journey by caravan across 10 ...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=347&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=347&amid=531Deteriorated Situations: Kenya, Philippines, Somalia, YemenFri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=346&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=346&amid=531Commenting on the failure of the G20 to do anything to bring in a global system to deal with debt crises, Tim Jones, Policy Officer at Jubilee Debt Ca...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=356&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=356&amid=531The debates about lost cases, strong borders and foreign criminals seem to overlook that immigrants are human. Writing for the Institute for Race Rela...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=355&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=355&amid=531Human Rights Watch has revealed that serious human rights violations persist in Burma, despite an apparent commitment by the government to defend huma...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=354&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=354&amid=531At the November G20 meeting, a growing group of G20 countries from South Africa to Brazil backed the Robin Hood Tax, and the link between the Robin Ho...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=353&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=353&amid=531Chinese-run copper mining companies in Zambia routinely flout labor laws and regulations designed to protect workers' safety and the right to organize...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=352&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=352&amid=531Representatives from 15 faith traditions gathered at the Sacred Land Celebration in Assisi, Italy from 31 October to 2 November 2011 for the launch of...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=351&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=351&amid=531Church Action on Poverty says it is "delighted" at the first success of their campaign to 'Close the Gap' between rich and poor through fairer taxes. ...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=359&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=359&amid=531Human trafficking is serious, international, organised crime. The money generated from it (an estimated $32 billion per annum worldwide) is only margi...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=358&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=358&amid=531Despite this year's vote by South Sudan for independence, churches in Sudan and South Sudan have decided to remain united, mainly to help denomination...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=357&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=357&amid=531Management at Nestle's giant Kabirwala dairy factory in Pakistan - a state-of-the art facility with a feudal industrial relations system - is criminal...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=361&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=361&amid=531VATICAN CITY, NOV. 10, 2011 (Zenit.org).- At a meeting with religious leaders from Israel, Benedict XVI affirmed that a rightly lived relationship wit...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=360&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=360&amid=531On November 8th, following Ethical Consumer's article on the ethics at outsourcing companies, a new Early Day Motion asking the Government to exclude ...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=363&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=363&amid=531El Salvador has bestowed the first 'Amigo de El Salvador' award on the London-based Archbishop Romero Trust, which celebrates the legacy of human righ...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=362&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=362&amid=531Delegates from 200 countries will meet in South Africa from November 28 to try to reach agreement on global emissions cuts and funding for developing ...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=364&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=364&amid=531World church leaders have met in Edinburgh, to discuss plans to rid the world of nuclear weapons and to hold discussions with civic and political lead...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=365&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=365&amid=531Both the global economic downturn and the pending London Olympic year bring issues involving the exploitation of vulnerable workers into sharp focus i...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=368&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=368&amid=531 A joint report published by the Children'...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=369&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=369&amid=531 The UN climate chang...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=374&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=374&amid=531Vince Cable's department has broken a key coalition deal on the environment for a second time, say campaigners. UK Export Finance - also known as the ...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=376&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=376&amid=531Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=378&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=378&amid=531Inquiry says Women, men and children trafficked into Britain not seen as victims of crime whose rights have been breached. The victims of human traffi...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=377&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=377&amid=531The UK Border Agency has announced the 'preferred bidders' to provide accommodation for asylum seekers across the UK for the next 5 years. Public and ...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=383&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=383&amid=531An amendment to the Welfare Reform Bill to protect the benefits of disabled children once Universal Credit is introduced has been defeated in the Hous...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=384&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=384&amid=531'Social theologian Fr Donal Dorr has an interesting perspective on the background and legacy of the Synod document 'Justice in the World' on its 40th ...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=385&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=385&amid=531The online prayer calendar for Poverty & Homelessness Action Week 2012 has been released. <a href="http://www.actionweek.org.uk/html/ca...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=387&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=387&amid=531 EDM 2589: Christians In Nigeria <a href="http://www.parliament.uk...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=386&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=386&amid=531A copy of the Justice and Peace Sunday Letter from our President, Bishop Moran, has been sent to every parish to be read out. Please ask your parish p...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=388&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=388&amid=531Armed rebel groups active in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) derive their funds from several sources, notably trade in natural resources, b...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=391&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=391&amid=531 Bishop M...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=389&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=389&amid=531UK government ministers are planning to use cancellation of a made-up debt to help meet their overseas aid target. Sudan currently 'owes' £678 m...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=395&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=395&amid=531During his Homily for Midnight Mass at Westminster Cathedral Archbishop Vincent prayed for 50 families in Beit Jala on the West Bank who face lo...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=394&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=394&amid=531The Catholic community in Glasgow has been served by several Nigerian priests in recent years. In his New Year message, Archbishop Mario Conti express...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=393&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=393&amid=531The Ay family, Kurdish asylum seekers from Turkey, were arrested and detained in Dungavel for 13 months in 2002, in contravention of UN Conventions to...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=396&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=396&amid=531 Our world is filled with barriers b...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=399&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=399&amid=531Study refutes claim that foreign nationals are depriving British-born workers of jobs. There is no link between rising immigration and rising unemploy...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=398&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=398&amid=531Buoyed by a stunning victory in the House of Lords, disabled rights activists and their supporters are pledging to step up the campaign for welfare ju...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=397&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=397&amid=531Trafficked children arriving alone at Dover were sent straight back to France under a secret "gentleman's agreement" that was in force since at least ...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=400&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=400&amid=531In his 2012 message to the Vatican’s diplomatic corps, Pope Benedict said said that environmental protection and the connection between fighting...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=401&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=401&amid=531The Report documents human rights abuses worldwide including: mistreatment of migrants in Western Europe; violations of the laws of war in Libya...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=403&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=403&amid=531On 19th January, a meeting took place at Lambeth Palace in London between key representatives from the churches and Palestinian Authority President Ma...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=402&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=402&amid=531A recent statement of the Bishops of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community (COMECE) discusses options for t...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=404&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=404&amid=531Stop Climate Chaos Scotland (SCCS) has expressed major disappointment in the Scottish Government’s Budget Bill which has now been published.Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=405&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=405&amid=531Private security guards employed to forcibly remove people from the UK have used racist language and inappropriate force. A report by MPs Commons' Hom...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=406&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=406&amid=531 A new report from Scottish CND shows that i...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=407&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=407&amid=531Use CND's online tool to ask the Foreign Secretary William Hague to make a new disarmament commitment at this May's nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=409&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=409&amid=531More Determination is Needed to Make Human Rights Real. "Europe must move with more determination from rhetoric to enforcement of human rights standar...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=408&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=408&amid=531The House of Commons debated the Welfare Reform Bill for the last time on 1 February 2012 following a record seventh defeat for the government in the ...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=410&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=410&amid=531Seven actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated and two improved in January 2012, according to the new issue of CrisisWatc...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=411&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=411&amid=531A Human Rights Watch report on Israel’s Control of Palestinian Residency in the West Bank and Gaza. This report describes the arbitrar...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=413&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=413&amid=531The number of civilians killed in the conflict rose eight per cent last year to reach 3,021 - with more than three-quarters caused by attacks from the...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=412&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=412&amid=531Refugee Survival Trust is launching a new animation which stars Scottish novelist and comedian A L Kennedy. The animation highlights the flaws &n...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=416&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=416&amid=531That this House strongly condemns the Chinese security forces' unwarranted use of force including opening fire on unarmed demonstrators to quash...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=415&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=415&amid=531The numbers game around immigration statistics has turned into a bloody battle. There is a sense in which debates which solely contest the ...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=414&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=414&amid=531Ten actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated and one improved in December 2011, according to the new issue of CrisisWatchMon, 09 Jan 2012 13:20:38 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=392&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=392&amid=531Stop Climate Chaos Scotland need your help with their campaign stunt. When: Wednesday 11th January 2012, 1pm. Where: St Andrews House, Regen...Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:46:55 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=390&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=390&amid=531What's the role of human rights in a period of cut backs to public services? What is the role of human rights in protecting the vulnerable? Do human r...Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:14:15 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=315&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=315&amid=531Monday 14th November marked the 10th Anniversary of the launch of the Doha Development Round of negotiations at the World Trade Organisation. Ten year...Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:14:15 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=366&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=366&amid=531 Action b...Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:14:15 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=367&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=367&amid=531Eight actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated and four improved in November 2011, according to the new issue of CrisisWa...Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:14:15 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=375&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=375&amid=531 Message from Pax Christi. During ...Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:14:15 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=379&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=379&amid=531The Welfare Reform Bill is the biggest change to the welfare state for sixty years. It contains proposals and benefit cuts that threaten the wellbeing...Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:14:15 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=382&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=382&amid=531'If you want to do something more than go with the flow of Christmas consumerism you could do worse than visit the CASC-Aid site for 50/50 giving. It ...Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:37:03 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=381&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=381&amid=531MPs will be discussing nuclear weapons in a debate on "The cost of Trident nuclear missile and submarine replacement" at 4.30 pm on Wednesday 7 Decemb...Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:49:52 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=380&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=380&amid=531The annual appeal for festive season gifts for asylum seeker children is as important as ever. Asylum seeker parents continue to have to c...Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:55:38 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=373&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=373&amid=531 Two prayers to commemerate World ...Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:50:25 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=372&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=372&amid=531Dundee Churches for Justice and Peace is holding a peace service for the Holy Land on Saturday 10th Deember in the City Square, Dundee at ...Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:57:14 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=370&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=370&amid=531This day is marked annually in George Square at the site of the ATD Fourth World stone, one of a number around the world. This year's event is being o...Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:20:41 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=336&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=336&amid=5318 actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated in September 2011, according to the latest issue of the International Crisis G...Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:48:28 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=332&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=332&amid=531People in Europe are experiencing what those in the global South have known for generations: the power of debt to dictate the course of people’s...Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:57:32 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=329&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=329&amid=531 The United Nations World Day for Peace is al...Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:20:47 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=328&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=328&amid=531Make Peace Festival with speakers, stalls and entertainment. The centre piece of the event will be at 12 Noon when there will be the formation of a Hu...Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:33:03 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=325&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=325&amid=531The world's arms industry is descending on London from 13-16 September. Acres of weaponry, from fighter jets and battleships to drones and tear gas, w...Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:42:18 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=323&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=323&amid=531'WORK AND SOCIAL JUSTICE' Renfield St Stephens Centre, 260 Bath Street, Glasgow, G2 4JP Registration from 10.30. Finishes 3.45. Speakers: ...Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:07:49 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=321&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=321&amid=5315 actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated in August 2011, according to the latest issue of the International Crisis Grou...Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:59:10 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=318&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=318&amid=531This year's Racial Justice Sunday resources are based around the theme "Created by God, Treated like Slaves: Tackling Human Trafficking" and "Love you...Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:48:57 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=316&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=316&amid=531CAAT Christian Network Day of Prayer: This year's Christian Network Day of Prayer will take place on the eve of DSEi, one of the world's largest arms ...Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:58:49 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=314&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=314&amid=531What's the role of human rights in a period of cut backs to public services? What is the role of human rights in protecting the vulnerable? Do human r...Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:47:40 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=313&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=313&amid=531A new play which tells the story of hunger strikes by a group of asylum-seeking women held at Yarl’s Wood detention centre opens at the Edinburg...Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:14:54 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=300&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=300&amid=531Lessons from the Ivorian cocoa sector by Paul Robson AS International Dec 2010Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:09:54 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=296&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=296&amid=5318 actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated in July 2011, according to the latest issue of the International Crisis Group'...Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:36:35 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=295&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=295&amid=5317 actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated in June 2011, according to the latest issue of CrisisWatch.Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:28:35 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=288&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=288&amid=531The Bishops urge all to support the vital work of the Apostleship of the Sea. 90% of world trade is transported by ship, however the life of...Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:09:21 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=283&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=283&amid=531But millions of people whose lives they’ll affect, from Sierra Leone to Greece, have had no say. Let’s demand Christine Lagarde and Agust&...Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:49:10 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=277&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=277&amid=531Patrick Harvie, MSP, on behalf of Jubilee Scotland, has officially lodged motion S4M00148, 'Supporting Jubilee Scotland's call for Debt Arbitration'. ...Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:11:05 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=265&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=265&amid=531Contact your MPFri, 10 Jun 2011 10:01:59 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=264&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=264&amid=5317 actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated in May 2011, according to the latest issue of CrisisWatch.Wed, 08 Jun 2011 13:35:42 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=259&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=259&amid=531Anyone from anywhere in Scotland (or beyond for that matter) will be able to watch the debate over the internet and can post questions online while th...Tue, 17 May 2011 09:18:37 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=217&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=217&amid=531 Contact details for candidates in the Scottish election and initial responses to the survey on Trident ha...Tue, 17 May 2011 09:18:37 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=230&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=230&amid=531 Contact details for candidates in the Scottish election and initial responses to the survey on Trident ha...Tue, 17 May 2011 09:18:37 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=229&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=229&amid=53111 actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated in April 2011, according to the latest issue of the International Crisis...Tue, 17 May 2011 09:18:37 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=239&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=239&amid=531Anti-Slavery International’s latest research shows the continuation of child trafficking, a form of modern slavery, to cocoa farms in the Ivory ...Thu, 28 Apr 2011 07:54:02 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=238&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=238&amid=531Jubilee Scotland asks you to call on MPs to support a 10 Minute Bill which seeks to clean up the Export Credit Guarantees Department (ECGD). On ...Wed, 13 Apr 2011 07:09:30 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=226&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=226&amid=531Contact details for candidates in the Scottish election and initial responses to the survey on Trident have been added to the Scotland’s for Pea...Fri, 25 Mar 2011 08:47:56 GMThttp://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=211&amid=531http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Home.aspx?itemid=211&amid=531