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How much have higher education workers lost?

How much have higher education workers lost?  - A new online calculator now means UNISON members in universities and other higher education institutions across the UK can find out exactly how much years of a near pay freeze have cost them – ahead of next month’s industrial action ballot.

What Is Depression And How To Get Help

What Is Depression And How To Get Help - Rowling spoke about how she contemplated suicide when she was suffering from depression as a single mother. She said that when her regular doctor looked back over her medical notes, they called her in and gave her counselling. “She absolutely saved me because I don't think I would have had the guts to go and do it twice,” the author said. "I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never.”
Unhealthy pregnancy diet may be linked to ADHD  - ADHD and conduct problems are the most common reasons for child mental health referral in the UK and tend to occur in tandem. More than 40 per ...

Helping Elderly Dementia Sufferers find Peace of Mind

Helping Elderly Dementia Sufferers find Peace of Mind  - Dementia is one of the most common issues in this field, and figures are growing by the year. In fact, experts predict that there will be over one million people living with the illness by 2025 . While there is no cure for the mental illness, the families of sufferers can help their loved ones. Quite frankly, it doesn’t have to stop them from enjoying a fulfilling life.

Using toxic waste to reduce poverty and save lives

Using toxic waste to reduce poverty and save lives  - In many cases these pollutants can instead be used to reduce poverty through creating jobs and boosting the economy, by adopting a circular ...

Artificial intelligence can find, map poverty, researchers say

Artificial intelligence can find, map poverty , researchers say  - The method would assist governments and charities trying to fight poverty but lacking precise and reliable information on where poor people are living ...

Research highlights continued immiseration of British workers

Research highlights continued immiseration of British workers  - The study, headed “Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK : 2016,” reveals a rise in what it terms the “new poor,” employed households ...

Why Older People Shouldn't Vote-and Other Ideas Unpopular With My Parents

Why Older People Shouldn't Vote-and Other Ideas Unpopular With My Parents  - No, old people vote shortsightedly, choosing the least progressive outcome. In surveys in the U.S. and the U.K. , people over 65–compared with people ...

Bald And Under Thirty: Are You Gay Or Racist, Mate?

Bald And Under Thirty: Are You Gay Or Racist, Mate?  - My name is Scott Manley Hadley and I am prematurely bald. I first shaved my head at 26 when I acknowledged that my receding hairline was unstoppable and accelerating. In the year and a half since then, I’ve been the victim of constant discrimination.

Scotland is the best for LGBT equality

Scotland is the best for LGBT equality  - Scotland sat at the top of the list on The Rainbow Europe Index, with an impressive 90.4% of the criteria for LGBT equality being met, the UK which ...

Plan to Allow Legal Changes of Gender in Australia.

Plan to Allow Legal Changes of Gender in Australia.  - The Victorian Labor government, led by Premier Daniel Andrews introduced the bill as a one his party’s 2014 election promises. The legislation will remove previous requirements of gender reassignment surgery for a person to be able to change gender on their birth certificate.

All gender toilet' program kickstarts in Beijing

All gender toilet' program kickstarts in Beijing  - Dozens of 'all gender toilets' have been set up in different corners of China's capital city, a sign of progress for LGBTI rights in the relatively ...

Ambassador Schapiro Hosts Reception for Major Cooper and Czech LGBTI Leaders

Ambassador Schapiro Hosts Reception for Major Cooper and Czech LGBTI Leaders  - US Visitor Major Clarke Cooper met with Czech LGBTI leaders at the U.S. Ambassadors' residence. U.S. Visitor Major Clarke Cooper met with Czech ...

Chch writers fest event to raise funds for LGBTI youth

Chch writers fest event to raise funds for LGBTI youth  - An event at next week's WORD Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival will raise funds for LGBTI youth organisation, Q-topia, helping them to ...

Firm ups the ante with new 'inclusive' strategy

Firm ups the ante with new 'inclusive' strategy  - When I was a young lawyer in London, the whole LGBTI agenda was really something that big law firms didn't talk about, it wasn't on the agenda,” Mr ...

Police Officers “Sexually Harass” Leading LGBTI Activist

Police Officers “Sexually Harass” Leading LGBTI Activist  - Ahmed Ben Amor, Vice President of the LGBTI rights group, Shams has spoken of how he was mistreated and sexually harassed by Police officers ...

Roma Downey insists remake of Ben-Hur will not have gay sub-plot of Hollywood epic

Roma Downey insists remake of Ben-Hur will not have gay sub-plot of Hollywood epic  - Claims of homosexual overtones in 1959's Ben-Hur emerged after the late screenwriter Gore Vidal, himself bisexual, said the title character played by Heston and Messala - played by the late Glengormley actor Stephen Boyd - were former lovers.

Ex-gay' gospel singer, who claimed 'God's power' helped him change his lifestyle, now dating a ...

Ex- gay ' gospel singer, who claimed 'God's power' helped him change his lifestyle, now dating a ...  - An 'ex- gay ' American gospel singer who claimed God's power helped him to “change his lifestyle”, is now dating a woman. Donnie McClurkin, who ...

An LGBT sports community emerges in Tel Aviv

An LGBT sports community emerges in Tel Aviv  - Tel Aviv has a thriving LGBT community and its recent Pride celebration, with the City of Tel Aviv as a major sponsor, drew more than 100,000 people along with 10,000 tourists. The city has a dynamic LGBT nightlife, a supportive population and impressive cultural resources. One thing that was missing was an organized LGBT sports community.

Cleric's Call Against Anti-LGBT Violence

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Cleric's Call Against Anti- LGBT Violence  - Since early 2009, Human Rights Watch has documented kidnappings, executions, and torture by militia groups, including al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army, of gay men and men perceived to be gay. The killings have continued unabated.

Center Global seeks housing assistance for LGBT asylum seekers

Center Global seeks housing assistance for LGBT asylum seekers  - The LGBT asylum seekers are mostly young, male professionals from Africa and Latin America. An African man in his 20s, who asked the Washington ...

African Anglicans will never accept gay marriage, vows senior Church leader

African Anglicans will never accept gay marriage, vows senior Church leader  - A senior Anglican leader has vowed African churches will never accept same-sex marriage as he accused the Western church of a quasi-racist ...

Homophobes Might Be Gay, Scientists Discover

Homophobes Might Be Gay, Scientists Discover  - Sometimes the world is really great and perfect and this is one of those times. Thanks to science, we can now confirm that some homophobes are ...

The Brave Activists Fighting For LGBT Rights In Uganda

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The Brave Activists Fighting For LGBT Rights In Uganda  - He was not, however, at home and it was not a family pet. Jjuuko was at work, and what my camera could not see were, he told me, the three rows of barbed wire atop the high fences outside his office, the two security guards, the CCTV cameras, the alarm system, the reinforced metal bars on all the windows and doors… and the dog. “Every day you get used to your prison: we know this is what it is,” said Jjuuko.