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Tatler Asia
3 days ago
- Business
- Tatler Asia
Meet the top 10 finalists of the Redress Design Award 2025
The Redress Design Award 2025 calls for tangible solutions for combating fashion waste Pioneering environmental non-proft Redress is taking a major leap forward in a world burdened by fashion waste. Since its inception in 2007, it has been committed to reducing the fashion industry's increasingly burdensome impact on the planet. Now, the organisation has revealed the top 10 global finalists for the Redress Design Award 2025, the world's largest sustainable fashion competition. The 2025 finalists were selected from a competitive pool of applicants spanning 57 regions. Their collections are built on principles of waste reduction, textile reuse and circularity, reflecting a new wave of creative minds determined to reshape the fashion world. More from Tatler: Meet the emerging fashion designers poised to become household names The competition underscores a straightforward message: the industry is in much need of change. With between 100 and 150 billion new garments produced annually, most of which end up in landfills or incinerators, the system of overproduction and overconsumption is pushing the planet to a breaking point. Redress finds that the industry alone generates an estimated 92 million tonnes of textile waste annually, which is projected to rise by 60-per cent between 2015 and 2030. The finalists are: Casbeth Tshegofatso Marobane (South Africa), Lucie Albert (Germany), Carla Zhang (Mainland China), Mara San Pedro (Philippines), Hawon Park (South Korea), Nathan Moy (Hong Kong), Heyun Pan (Mainland China), Wen Hanzhang (Canada), Hugo Dumas (France) and Yixuan Nie (USA). See also: Patis Tesoro shows no signs of slowing down in her effort to preserve and promote Filipino design
Sky News
04-05-2025
- Politics
- Sky News
Child sexual abuse victims 'denied justice' after compensation scheme scrapped over cost
Sky News can reveal that the government has rowed back on a national compensation scheme for victims of child sexual abuse, despite it being promised under the previous Conservative administration. A National Redress Scheme was one of 20 key recommendations made by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), but a Home Office report reveals the government has scrapped it because of the cost. Marie, who is 71, suffered alleged sexual, physical, and emotional abuse at Greenfield House Convent in St Helens, Merseyside, between 1959 and 1962, and is still fighting for compensation. As soon as she arrived as a six-year-old, Marie says her hair was cut off, her name changed, and she experienced regular beatings from the nuns and students. She claims a nun instigated the violence, including when Marie was held down so that her legs were "spread-eagled" as she was sexually abused with a coat hanger. Marie has received an apology from the Catholic body that ran the home; she tried to sue them, but her claim was rejected because it was filed too long after the alleged abuse. In February, ministers said the law would change for victims of sexual abuse trying to sue institutions for damages, which was a recommendation from the IICSA. Previously, people had to make a civil claim before they were 21, unless the victim could prove a fair trial could proceed despite the time lapse. Campaigners argued for the time limit to be removed as, on average, victims wait 26 years to come forward. Changes to the 1980 Limitation Act could lead to more people making claims. Civil cases 'can take three to five years' But Peter Garsden, president of the Association of Child Abuse Lawyers, worries that when it comes to historical abuse where the defendant is dead, institutions will still argue that it is impossible to have a fair trial and will fight to have the case thrown out of court. Mr Garsden said it takes "between three and five years" for a civil case to get to trial. He warned that claimants "can end up losing if you go through that process. Whereas the Redress Scheme would be quicker, much more straightforward, and much more likely to give justice to the victims". Victim awarded £10 compensation Jimbo, who was a victim of abuse at St Aidan's children's home in Cheshire, took his case to the High Court twice and the Court of Appeal three times, but, after 13 years, all he ended up with was £10 for his bus fare to court. Despite the Lord Justice of Appeal saying he believed that the abuse had occurred, Jimbo lost his claim because of the time limit for child sexual abuse claims to be made. Neither Marie nor Jimbo is likely to benefit from the removal of the time limit for personal injury claims, which is why Mr Garsden is calling on the government to implement a National Redress Scheme for victims of sexual abuse, as recommended by the IICSA. Hundreds of millions paid to victims The governments in Scotland and Northern Ireland have set up compensation schemes and paid hundreds of millions of pounds to victims. In 2023, the then Conservative government said a similar scheme would be organised for England and Wales. But the Home Office admitted in its Tackling Child Sexual Abuse: Progress Update that it "is not currently taking forward any further steps on the IICSA proposal for a separate, national financial redress scheme for all survivors of child sexual abuse". "In the current fiscal environment, this recommendation is very difficult to take forward," it added. For victims, the scheme was the last chance of compensation for a lifetime blighted by abuse. "The money is about justice and about all the other people who have had to suffer this abuse," Marie said.
The Journal
23-04-2025
- Politics
- The Journal
Michael O'Brien, abuse survivor and former mayor of Clonmel, dies aged 92
MunsterAtheist / YouTube MICHAEL O'BRIEN, A survivor of child sexual abuse who famously tackled the government during a televised debate in 2009, has died. He passed away peacefully at his daughter Geraldine's home yesterday at the age of 92. Michael O'Brien, who previously served as Lord Mayor of Clonmel in 1993, was a member of a live studio audience for RTÉ's Questions and Answers programme in 2009. As a child he had spent eight years in St Joseph's Industrial School, also known as Ferryhouse, in Co Tipperary where he was raped and severely beaten. He spoke out following the publication of the Ryan report, which had examined child sexual abuse in Church-led institutions. The report came a decade after the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse was commissioned by the government in 1999. Addressing then-Minister for Transport and Fianna Fáil TD Noel Dempsey, O'Brien detailed his own experiences with the commission, which was published a week before the broadcast. Advertisement O'Brien asked Dempsey if the government would freeze the assets of religious institutions if they didn't pay more into the Redress Board Fund, which had been a topical issue at the time. Dempsey replied that 'it's not a power that the government has'. 'The constitution protects the right to private property,' he said, adding that it wasn't an option for them. In a passionate response to Dempsey, O'Brien told the panel that his account of being raped and beaten had been questioned at the commission of investigation into institutional child abuse by the barristers and judges, and the effect that had on him. He said that he had attempted to take his own life after spending five days at the commission. 'They brought a man over from Rome, 90 odd years of age, to tell me I was telling lies, that I wasn't beaten for an hour non-stop by two of them from head to toe without a shred of cloth on my body,' O'Brien told Dempsey. Shortly after he spoke out, presenter John Bowman said that his speech was the most memorable moment of the show in 23 years. Speaking on an RTÉ documentary filmed years after the programme, O'Brien said that he had 'no idea' what he was going to say until he saw the minister. "And I knew then now or never...", Michael O'Brien explains why he spoke out on Questions & Answers in 2009. #Redress - Breaking the Silence, part 2, tonight, 9.35pm — RTÉ One (@RTEOne) March 3, 2020 But he knew that after Dempsey's answer, that it was 'now or never'. O'Brien is predeceased by his wife Mary. His funeral will take place tomorrow morning at St. Mary's Church in Clonmel. Readers like you are keeping these stories free for everyone... A mix of advertising and supporting contributions helps keep paywalls away from valuable information like this article. Over 5,000 readers like you have already stepped up and support us with a monthly payment or a once-off donation. Learn More Support The Journal
The Independent
03-03-2025
- Business
- The Independent
£2.5bn from Chelsea sale ‘still not handed to Ukraine war victims three years on'
Three years after Roman Abramovich 's forced sale of Chelsea Football Club, the £2.5 billion generated remains inaccessible for its intended purpose – humanitarian aid in Ukraine. A legal adviser has confirmed the funds are "still locked up," despite the pledge to benefit victims of the war. Abramovich, placed under sanction by the Government in 2022 due to his links to Russia 's invasion of Ukraine, committed the proceeds of the sale to a charitable foundation. However, the funds remain unavailable, raising questions about the delay and the complexities of transferring such a substantial sum under the current geopolitical circumstances. The deal, at the time, was one of the most complex in the history of sport. At the time, a spokesperson for Abramovich said that an independently-managed foundation was being set up to oversee the proceeds of sale. Lyra Nightingale, a legal adviser at Redress, an organisation helping deliver justice and reparations for survivors of torture and challenging impunity for perpetrators, said the funds remained unused and there had been 'no clear reason from the Government as to why that is so'. Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Ms Nightingale said: 'Around three years ago now, Abramovich … was being subject to these Russian sanctions … and he was granted a licence to sell Chelsea Football Club. 'The proceeds of that were to go for the benefit of Ukraine. '(But) three years later we're still waiting. 'And there is no clear reason from the Government as to why that is so. (It's) still locked up. That money has been expressly committed to humanitarian purposes in Ukraine. 'We don't know why it's stuck. There's a real lack of transparency and over three years of campaigning for that money to go where the Government said it would go, that has still not happened.' The House of Lords European Affairs Committee has previously reported the cash was frozen in a UK bank account amid 'disagreement' about where it should be spent.
