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Modern slavery victims in retail industry double in a yearA new report from the anti-slavery charity Unseen has revealed a sharp rise in modern slavery reports from the UK retail industry between 2024 and 2025, with the number of potential victims…
Modern Slavery
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Parliamentarians call for new laws to address AI threatsThe Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) have issued a report which calls for new bill to “address the scale and seriousness” of human rights risks posed by AI.
Artificial Intelligence
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Key moments in today's Assisted Suicide Debate
Assisted Suicide
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Conversion practices Bill could criminalise parents and pastors, barrister warnsA proposed ban on conversion practices in Northern Ireland could criminalise ordinary parenting, pastoral conversations and religious teaching, a leading barrister has warned.
Transgender
Press Releases
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MPs speak out against Assisted Suicide
Assisted Suicide
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Belfast City Hall to be lit for ‘International Safe Abortion Day’Belfast City Hall is to be illuminated in green on 28 September to mark ‘International Safe Abortion Day’. The plans, which have sparked a fierce backlash among Christians in Northern Ireland, follow…
Abortion
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Greens to debate giving biological males legal right to compete in women’s sportMembers of the Green Party have drawn up proposals, to be debated at Party conference in October, which would give biological male athletes a legal right to compete in women’s sport. The…
Transgender
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PM to abstain in Assisted Suicide voteThe Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said that he will abstain in the vote at Second Reading of Lauren Edwards’ Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill next week. The Bill, which…
Assisted Suicide
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Meta settle lawsuit for $18bn and agree to changes for teensMeta, parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp, have agreed to pay up to $18 billion (over £13 billion) to settle a lawsuit which claimed their social media platforms harmed children.
Pornography
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Bill Gates calls for ban on AI taking some human jobsMicrosoft founder Bill Gates has spoken out about the use of artificial intelligence and called for robots and AI to be banned from taking certain jobs from human beings.
Artificial Intelligence
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After-school care jumps to £2,800 a year for someParents of children in primary school could be paying more than £2,800 for a year of after-school care in some parts of the UK.
Marriage and Family
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Children not safe online warns National Crime AgencyThe head of the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has warned that the environment online is not safe for children to use.
Pornography