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Complementing these efforts, the United Nations itself has issued guidance to address COVID-19 related hate speech, offering recommendations to UN entities, Member States, technology companies ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in at least 27 million cases and over 900,000 deaths worldwide according to the WHO’s latest figures. Despite women’s enormous contributions to mitigating ...
The world is facing multiple famines of “biblical proportions” in just a matter of months, the UN has said, warning that the coronavirus pandemic will push an additional 130 million people to ...
The U.N. Secretary-General warned Wednesday the coronavirus pandemic is “out of control,” and he called for global solidarity in making a future vaccine affordable and available to all.
This month marks three years since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Covid-19 a pandemic. Since then, more than 750 million cases of Covid-19 have been reported, along with more than 6. ...
coronavirus . UN calls for global response to coronavirus pandemic The intergovernmental organization described the disease as a “global health crisis unlike any in the 75-year history of the ...
UN Chief: Pandemic a Threat to Global Peace, Security April 09, 2020 9:19 PM By Margaret Besheer; ... COVID-19 could also impact elections and referenda, igniting political tensions.
UNITED NATIONS — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Thursday that the coronavirus pandemic is “a human crisis that is fast becoming a human rights crisis.” ...
The Political Declaration on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response was the first major instrument dedicated to COVID-19 reforms agreed on by UN Member States.
The coronavirus pandemic pushed 77 million people into extreme poverty last year, according to a new report from the United Nations (U.N.) released on Tuesday. The 208-page report from the U.N ...
President Joe Biden's speech to the U.N. General Assembly Tuesday will preview "a chapter of intensive diplomacy" to address COVID-19 and climate change, officials said.