Philip Brown was Chair of Coventry Lord Mayor's Committee for Peace and Reconciliation from 2018 to 2020
There is a very useful summary of COVID-I9 statistics for all countries at https://covidbynumbers.com/ It is updated in real time and the list is searchable and also sortable by: Total Cases New Cases New Cases 10-D Avg Total Deaths New … Continue reading →
The Status Now Network is demanding that the UK and Irish governments act immediately so that all undocumented, destitute and migrant people in the legal process in both the UK and Ireland are granted Status Now, as in Leave to … Continue reading →
Coventry City Council published this statement on 7 July 2020. Coventry City Council is seeking interest from people who could help ensure Priory Visitor Centre remains up and running over the next few years. The Priory Visitor Centre closed its … Continue reading →
The city council published the following statement on 8 July 2020. Coventry this week joins others around the world to mark the 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide. The genocide was part of the Bosnian War and was the worst … Continue reading →
The UK government is set to resume evictions of refugees housed in temporary accommodation. Hundreds of refugees now fear imminent homelessness, which is simply unacceptable. The Refugee Council is calling on the government to take urgent action to ensure safety … Continue reading →
On 10 June 2020, Coventry Biennial issued the following statement and useful links. This post hopes to make our position clear as an organisation that is anti-racist and to highlight some of the ways that we are committed to Black … Continue reading →
On 8 June 2020, Coventry City of Culture Trust issued the following statement. The team at Coventry City of Culture Trust has been listening to the international, national, and local conversations around the murder of George Floyd and the global … Continue reading →
Geneva Peace Week (GPW) is a leading annual forum in the international peacebuilding calendar in which organizations in Geneva and their international partners come together to share knowledge and practice on a diverse range of topics relating to the promotion … Continue reading →
The Geneva Peacebuilding Platform is a knowledge hub that connects the critical mass of peacebuilding actors, resources, and expertise in Geneva and worldwide. Founded in 2008, the Platform has a mandate to facilitate interaction on peacebuilding between different institutions and … Continue reading →
It is estimated there are around 1 million undocumented workers living in the UK. Because of COVID-19, many of them are now unable to work and, because they are undocumented, they cannot claim government benefits. They are therefore going without … Continue reading →