Our Foreign Secretary now condemns Israel in the Commons, yet Britain still supplies weapons and intelligence for its bombing campaigns — as the horror reaches perhaps the final stage, action must finally replace words, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP

THE Constitution and Regulation Commission of the Congress of Peru, on May 6, shelved a Bill presented by President Pedro Castillo that proposed to call a referendum to change the current constitution and establish a constituent assembly to redraft it. The commission, which was made up of a majority of opposition legislators, rejected the measure with 11 votes against and six votes in favor.
In a statement, the commission said that the Bill was “incompatible with the (current) constitution,” adopted in 1993 during Alberto Fujimori’s dictatorship. “We declare it to be shelved outright, as it runs counter to the constitutional values and principles established by the will of the constituent power,” said the statement.
During his election campaign, Castillo vowed to change the country’s pro free-market constitution, with the aim of giving the state more control and a leading role in the economy to compete with the private companies.

Police guidelines suggesting home searches and digital checks for women who experience pregnancy loss under suspicion of having broken the outdated 1967 Abortion Act have sparked uproar, writes PEOPLES’ HEALTH DISPATCH


