There are only hours left to get the Sustainable Communities Act (Amendment) Bill through the Commons. It has cleared the Committee Stage and has the support of all parties and the Government. You can email Harriet Harman and John Denham urging them to ensure it receives the time it needs to become law before the General Election.
Women of JosKAFANCHAN, NIGERIA Thursday March 11 (John Dada, Fantsuam Foundation for APC) – Since January, sectarian strife and reprisal killings have ripped through our communities in Jos, Plateau State. A mass burial took place on Tuesday with body counts close to three hundred, over 80% of them women and children. The Fantsuam Foundation’s Gender Evaluation Methodolgy has become a lifeline, a distant ray at the end of the tunnel, to get our communities out of this quagmire.
The Government wants to amend the Digital Economy Bill, now at the report stage, to counter advances in online piracy in the future. But the House of Lords, lobbied by the ISPA, has objected to the “blanket nature” of the amendment on copyright law, and the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights has argued that the proposals in clause 17 are too wide to be proportionate.
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