Organisations representing tenants, landlords and letting agents urge the government to provide financial help to private renters in ‘COVID rent arrears’ to avoid a surge in homelessness.
The United Nations' International Fund for Agricultural Development has called for governments across the world to declare remittance service providers essential businesses in times of crisis.
The former UK prime minister warned of a second or third wave of the COVID-19 crisis which he calls a “global emergency” that cannot truly be ended “unless it is eradicated in every continent”.
Nursing staff have handed in petitions with over 220,000 signatures at 10 Downing Street, calling for urgent action to fix the nursing workforce crisis in England.
An international consultation on 'Green Reformation: Ecology, Religion, Education and the Future of the Ecumenical Movement' organised by the World Council of Churches (WCC) department on Ecumenical Theological Education in cooperation with the Association of Protestant Churches and Missions in Germany, is taking place at the Ecumenical Institute Bossey, near Geneva, Switzerland.
The BMA says the NHS needs 10,000 extra beds and funding brought up to levels enjoyed by other leading Western European countries: a target that will not be reached under the Government’s recently announced Long Term Plan for the NHS.