COVID-19: How do you self-isolate if you have nowhere to live?
Across Europe, people have been asked to stay at home to protect themselves and others from COVID-19. And yet many have no home to...
COVID-19: RnB to the rescue
Swedish authorities use hip-hop and RnB artists to reach minorities and the suburbs with information about COVID-19.
It was discovered that many of those who...
EU approves Coronavirus aid package
The European Union has adopted measures to quickly release funding from the bloc’s budget to help tackle the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Coronavirus...
Behind the masks, nurses are worried but determined
Europeans have taken to applauding the efforts of health care workers on their balconies every night during the COVID-19 pandemic. The worryingly high death-rate...
COVID-19: Mental health must be a priority
The measures to contain the spread of the COVID-19 such as physical distancing and the closure of schools and workplaces may have a negative...
Living under Lockdown in the UK
On Monday 23rd March, Boris Johnson announced sweeping new restrictions to daily life. These restrictions are an attempt to curtail the UK’s outbreak of...
Schengen Area: an anniversary marked by closed borders
On 26 March 2020, the European Union marks the 25th anniversary of the Schengen agreement coming into force in seven European Union countries. Border...
Smurf colouring images for kids during COVID-19 lockdown
As lockdowns continue across the world, the Smurfs are helping children embrace basic gestures to help fight the spread of COVID-19.
They're asking you to...
UNRIC donates its stock of surgical masks to health facilities in...
Between March 19 and 23, our office distributed 3,100 surgical masks to health professionals working in several institutions in Flanders and the Brussels region.
UNRIC...
UNRIC Info Point & Library Newsletter – March 2020
monthly issue of the UNRIC Info Point & Library Newsletter featuring new UN websites and publications
Be Smurfs, Stay Home and Wash your Hands
New week, same goals: stay positive, wash your hands regularly with soap, and stay at home. That is the mantra.
The Smurfs have come to...
COVID-19 : Europeans are no longer “walking alone”
Across Europe, people are showing unprecedented solidarity in the face of the COVID-19 Coronavirus both in words and deeds since the continent became the...
COVID-19: “We are at war with a virus”– UN Secretary-General
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres urged the world’s nations to unite in their battle against the COVID-19 virus on Thursday (March 19).
“Our world faces...
The kindness and love of strangers in times of COVID-19
An Australian tourist with COVID-19 died in a remote part of Iceland on 16 March. His wife also tested positive for COVID-19 and Icelandic...
COVID-19: European Union suspends non-essential travel for non-EU citizens
The European Union has suspended all non-essential travel to the bloc for non-EU citizens for 30 days in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, European...