WHO
Substantial investment needed to avert mental health crisis (14 May 2020): https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/14-05-2020-substantial-investment-needed-to-avert-mental-health-crisis
WHO-Europe
Behavioural insights are valuable to inform the planning of appropriate pandemic response measures (14 May 2020): http://www.euro.who.int/en/media-centre/sections/statements/2020/statement-behavioural-insights-are-valuable-to-inform-the-planning-of-appropriate-pandemic-response-measures
UN News
Presidents and prime ministers lead call for ‘people’s vaccine’, free to all (14 May 2020): https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/05/1064122
Workers and COVID-19: Access to healthcare, now ‘a matter of life and death’ (14 May 2020): https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/05/1064112
WHO seeking further details on staff expulsion from Burundi (14 May 2020): https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/05/1064082
UN rights chief warns against mishandling the lifting of COVID-19 lockdowns (14 May 2020): https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/05/1064062
UN leads call to protect most vulnerable from mental health crisis during and after COVID-19 (14 May 2020): https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/05/1063882
DGC
The Power of Sport During a Pandemic: Training at Home with Japanese Athletes (14 May 2020): https://www.un.org/en/coronavirus/power-sport-during-pandemic-training-home-japanese-athletes
SG
Amid Rising Grief, Fear over COVID-19, Governments Must Make Ambitious Commitments to Treat Mental Illness, Secretary-General Says in Message Launching Policy Brief (SG/SM/20081, 13 May 2020): https://www.un.org/press/en/2020/sgsm20081
IFAD
COVID-19 response must target African agriculture and the rural poor / By Olusegun Obasanjo , Hailemariam Desalegn Boshe (14 May 2020): https://www.ifad.org/en/web/latest/blog/asset/41913297
Five ways organizations can help countries build agile and inclusive responses to COVID-19 / By Elizabeth Ssendiwala , Marie-Aude Even (14 May 2020): https://www.ifad.org/en/web/latest/blog/asset/41914378
ILO
COVID-19: G7 nations need to get gender equality right for a better future for women at work (14 May 2020): https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_744753/lang–en/index.htm
Plug social protection gaps in developing countries to prevent future crises, ILO says (14 May 2020): https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_744708/lang–en/index.htm
ITU
ITU leads global efforts to commemorate World Telecommunication and Information Society Day amid COVID-19 pandemic (14 May 2020): https://www.itu.int/en/mediacentre/Pages/MA03-2020-World-Telecommunication-and-Information-Society-Day.aspx
Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden: Online Safety and Security during COVID19 (14 May 2020): http://news.itu.int/her-majesty-queen-silvia-of-sweden-online-safety-and-security-during-covid19/
OHCHR
High Commissioner discusses coming out of COVID-19 lock-downs with Geneva press (14 May 2020): https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=25886&LangID=E
‘States must include LGBT community in COVID-19 response’: The how and why from a UN expert (14 May 2020): https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=25889&LangID=E
Debt standstill for distressed countries must go beyond 2020, urges UN expert (14 May 2020): https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=25888&LangID=E
UN-Habitat
UN-Habitat policy statement on the prevention of evictions and relocations during the COVID-19 crisis (14 May 2020): https://unhabitat.org/un-habitat-policy-statement-on-the-prevention-of-evictions-and-relocations-during-the-covid-19
UNAIDS
Feature story: “We are human, so of course it was scary” (15 May 2020): https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/featurestories/2020/may/20200515_kyrgyzstan
Feature story: Let transgender people be in the picture (14 May 2020): https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/featurestories/2020/may/20200514_transgender-people
UNDRR
COVID-19 puts human rights of millions at risk (14 May 2020): STATEMENT BY THE UN SECRETARY-GENERAL’S SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR DISASTER RISK REDUCTION, MAMI MIZUTORI, ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS DIMENSIONS OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: https://www.undrr.org/news/covid-19-puts-human-rights-millions-risk
UNDP
A chance for universal healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa (13 May 2020): https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/blog/2020/a-chance-for-universal-healthcare-in-sub-saharan-africa.html
For a lack of soap and clean water, disease flourishes (13 May 2020): https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/blog/2020/for-a-lack-of-soap-and-clean-water–disease-flourishes.html
UNECA
Covid-19 and Export Restrictions: The Limits of International Trade Law and Lessons for the AfCFTA (14 May 2020): https://www.uneca.org/stories/covid-19-and-export-restrictions-limits-international-trade-law-and-lessons-afcfta
COVID-19: Revamping Africa’s telecoms infrastructure crucial for digital health services (14 May 2020): https://www.uneca.org/stories/covid-19-revamping-africa%E2%80%99s-telecoms-infrastructure-crucial-digital-health-services
UNECE
UNECE welcomes Fairtrade International amongst the signatories of the Declaration for Gender Responsive Standards and Standards Development (14 May 2020): https://www.unece.org/info/media/presscurrent-press-h/trade/2020/unece-welcomes-fairtrade-international-amongst-the-signatories-of-the-declaration-for-gender-responsive-standards-and-standards-development/doc.html
Executive Secretary’s Blog: Time to rethink the way we work and travel (12 May 2020): https://www.unece.org/info/media/executive-secretarys-blog/2020/time-to-rethink-the-way-we-work-and-travel/doc.html
UNESCO
Call to Youth: How are young people being impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic? (14 May 2020): https://en.unesco.org/news/call-youth-how-are-young-people-being-impacted-covid-19-pandemic
UNHCR
UNHCR urges prioritization of mental health support in coronavirus response (14 May 2020): https://www.unhcr.org/news/press/2020/5/5ebcfd784/
UPU
Australia Post delivering much-needed medicines and more (15 May 2020): http://news.upu.int/no_cache/nd/australia-post-delivering-much-needed-medicines-and-more/
WORLD BANK
Remarks by Axel van Trotsenburg Managing Director, Operations: Conflict and the Pandemic – Tackling COVID-19 in Fragile Settings (a US Institute of Peace and World Bank Event) (13 May 2020): https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/speech/2020/05/14/remarks-by-axel-van-trotsenburg-managing-director-operations-conflict-and-the-pandemic—tackling-covid-19-in-fragile-settings-a-us-institute-of-peace-and-world-bank-event