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COVID-19: UN and partners launch $6.7 billion appeal for vulnerable countries
07 May 2020
Humanitarians are seeking nearly $7 billion to protect millions of lives and halt the spread of COVID-19 in more than 60 of the world’s most fragile countries.
The updated Global Humanitarian Response Plan, launched on Thursday, provides help and protection that prioritize the most vulnerable in society, such as older people, people with disabilities, and women and girls.
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FROM THE FIELD: Protecting the displaced in the time of COVID-19
07 May 2020
Refugees and displaced people living in camps are amongst the most vulnerable communities across the world and more likely to catch COVID-19 than others, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
In Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, an isolation centre has been built to provide health care to Rohingya refugees., by IOM
Social distancing and isolation orders imposed to keep the…
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Corruption, political blockages, threaten international efforts to help Bosnia and Herzegovina weather coronavirus
07 May 2020
Bosnia and Herzegovina is weathering the COVID-19 outbreak better than some other nations, but there’s a real danger that corruption will undermine global efforts to help it contain the pandemic, the international community’s High Representative to the Western Balkan country told the Security Council on Wednesday.
Valentin Inzko said that, 25…
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Coronavirus: Health system overload threatens pregnant women and newborns
07 May 2020
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) estimates that 116 million babies have been born since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and on Thursday called for governments to maintain lifesaving services for pregnant women and newborns that are under increasing threat from strained health services and supply chains.
New mothers and their babies are facing systems in crisis, including overwhelmed…
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ILO virtual Press Conference (under embargo)
07 May 2020
Press Conference Announcement
UNDER EMBARGO UNTIL THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020 AT 1 p.m. GMT (3 p.m. GENEVA TIME)Philippe Marcadent, Chief, ILO INWORK Branch Claire Hobden, domestic workers specialist Nuno Cunha, social protection specialist, Bangkok Annamarie Kiaga, informal economy specialist, Harare Elva Mourelo, inclusive labour market specialist, Buenos Aires
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IOM virtual Press Conference
07 May 2020
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António Vitorino, Director General IOM
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Average of 80,000 COVID-19 new cases a day in April: UN health agency
06 May 2020
Since the start of the month, an average of 80,000 cases of COVID-19 have been reported each day to the World Health Organization (WHO), the agency’s chief told journalists listening in to his virtual press conference on Wednesday.
“But these are not just numbers – every single case is a mother, a father, a son, a daughter, a brother, sister or friend”, said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the…
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Average of 80,000 COVID-19 new cases a day since April: UN health agency
06 May 2020
Since the start of April, an average of 80,000 cases of COVID-19 have been reported each day to the World Health Organization (WHO), the agency’s chief told journalists listening in to his virtual press conference on Wednesday.
“But these are not just numbers – every single case is a mother, a father, a son, a daughter, a brother, sister or friend”, said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the…
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Amid COVID-19 pandemic, thousands stranded in Bay of Bengal ‘unable to come ashore'
06 May 2020
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic,United Nations agencies called on Wednesday for South-East Asian governments to show compassion to boats full of vulnerable people adrift in the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said…
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Venezuelans ‘teetering on the brink of survival’ warn UN human rights experts
06 May 2020
United Nations independent experts demanded on Wednesday that the Venezuelan Government take concrete actions to tackle the devastating impact on basic human rights of the country’s economic crisis.
“We are deeply concerned about the spiraling economic crisis, and the effect this has had on people’s ability to subsist from one day to the next”, three UN Special Rapporteurs asserted…
