Archbishop sees challenges of communities without sanitation; Tough employment outlook faces young people; Tutu’s stance on Blair; Campaign for a change in law on assisted dying; The ban on euthanasia is to protect us from ourselves
Archbishop sees challenges of communities without sanitation
The Archbishop of York has spoken of the challenges facing Ugandan communities suffering from a lack of sanitation and limited access to clean water.
Dr John Sentamu made the comments following a visit to a WaterAid project in Uganda earlier this month.
He toured the Kalerwe community, located around 4km north of Kampala, where WaterAid has worked with local partners, including the African Evangelical Enterprise, to build rain water tanks, public toilets and pre-paid water meters.
WaterAid has teamed up with local partners across Uganda to deliver water and improve sanitation in remote or difficult to reach communities.
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/archbishop.sees.challenges.of.communities.without.sanitation/30551.htm
Tough employment outlook faces young people
Ekklesia -Young people finishing school, college or university this summer are facing the toughest outlook since 1994, according to a Trades Union Congress (TUC) analysis.
The TUC report, published last week, looks at both employment and education trends over the last 20 years, shows that the proportion of young people in full-time education has nearly doubled from 24 per cent in 1992 to 41 per cent in 2012.
Despite this surge in education, the proportion of young people who are neither working nor studying full-time today remains close to record levels at 20.4 per cent, the highest level since October 1994.
More than one in five (22 per cent) 16-24 year olds are currently unemployed, significantly higher than in 1992 when the rate was 16 per cent.
Employment and education participation rates started to improve after 1994 and continued rising until around the summer of 2001, when over 85 per cent of young people were either working or studying.
However, young people’s chances then started slowly to decline and as the UK entered recession in 2008, the prospects facing young people deteriorated sharply and have been at crisis levels ever since. This was not as a result of falling levels of educational participation – which have remained relatively stable during the recession – but of falling employment rates, says the TUC.
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/16989
Tutu’s stance on Blair
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel laureate and icon of the anti-apartheid struggle, has withdrawn from a seminar in South Africa in protest at the presence of Tony Blair and the former prime minister’s support for the 2003 Iraq war”.
Campaign for a change in law on assisted dying
“The widow of Tony Nicklinson has said she hopes his campaign for a change in the law on assisted dying will continue in his memory”.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/aug/28/tony-nicklinson-widow-euthanasia-campaign?newsfeed=true
The ban on euthanasia is to protect us from ourselves
by Peter Mullen, Telegraph – The widow of Tony Nicklinson says that the campaign for “a doctor’s right to end a life without fear of prosecution will continue” following the death of her husband who lost his court case in which he claimed the right to die. In the event Mr Nicklinson died from the complications of pneumonia after he had has refused food and fluids for several days.
The debate about euthanasia is being obscured by the use of pernicious euphemisms. Let’s come clean and speak plainly. “The doctor’s right to end a life” means the doctor has the right to kill someone. Whichever way you look at this, it means a licence to murder. Those who campaign for euthanasia want a change in the law so that this sort of killing – for that’s what it is – should no longer be against the law. This has far-reaching consequences, for it means that, in some cases, murder will no longer be murder
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/petermullen/100178325/the-ban-on-euthanasia-is-to-protect-us-from-ourselves/