COVID-19: Aggiornamenti dal sistema ONU – 5 Maggio

WHO

Hand Hygiene Day, 5 May: “Nurses and midwives, clean care is in your hands!”: https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2020/05/05/default-calendar/hand-hygiene-day

WHO-Europe

Iliana Colonna: enabling positive birth experiences in the time of COVID-19 (5 May 2020): http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/Health-systems/nursing-and-midwifery/news/news/2020/5/iliana-colonna-enabling-positive-birth-experiences-in-the-time-of-covid-19

UN News

UN health agency hails 7.4 billion Euro pledge for COVID-19 treatments (4 May 2020): https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/05/1063182

Press freedom critical to countering COVID-19 ‘pandemic of misinformation’: UN chief (4 May 2020): https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/05/1063152

None of us is safe until we all are, says UN chief at EU push to end COVID-19 pandemic (4 May 2020): https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/05/1063132 

DGC

UN peacekeeping radio wears multiple hats in fight against COVID-19 (4 May 2020): https://www.un.org/en/coronavirus/un-peacekeeping-radio-wears-multiple-hats-fight-against-covid-19

Malawi braces for Covid-19 (4 May 2020): https://www.un.org/en/coronavirus/malawi-braces-covid-19

COVID-19 in Fragile Settings: Ensuring a Conflict-Sensitive Response (4 May 2020): https://www.un.org/en/un-coronavirus-communications-team/covid-19-fragile-settings-ensuring-conflict-sensitive-response 

DESA

Severe downturns in labour-intensive sectors spell trouble for global inequality (4 May 2020): https://www.un.org/development/desa/en/news/policy/wesp-monthly-briefing-may.html 

SG

Non-Aligned Movement Has Critical Role to Play in Galvanizing Global Solidarity to Fight COVID-19 Pandemic, Secretary-General Tells Online Summit (SG/SM/20072, 4 April 2020): https://www.un.org/press/en/2020/sgsm20072.doc.htm

Protecting Journalists, Free Press Key to Thwarting Dangerous Outbreak of COVID-19 Disinformation on Social Media, Secretary-General Warns High-Level Dialogue (SG/SM/20071, 4 May 2020): https://www.un.org/press/en/2020/sgsm20071.doc.htm

With Over 3.3 Million People Infected, Fighting COVID-19 Pandemic Requires Greatest Public Health Effort in History, Secretary-General Tells Pledging Event (SG/SM/20070, 4 May 2020): https://www.un.org/press/en/2020/sgsm20070.doc.htm

‘Antidote’ to False COVID-19 Facts Guides Nations in Life-or-Death Decisions, Secretary-General Says, Calling for Guaranteed Press Freedom on Global Day (SG/SM/20069, 3 May 2020): https://www.un.org/press/en/2020/sgsm20069.doc.htm

FAO

In times of COVID-19, Bolivian urban farmers rethink their ways of working: Home deliveries help provide fresh food to cities during the pandemic (4 May 2020): http://www.fao.org/fao-stories/article/en/c/1272851/

ILO

Helping the “double casualties” of COVID-19 (04 May 2020): https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/lang–en/index.htm

Op-Ed: New normal? Better normal! (1 May 2020): https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_743326/lang–en/index.htm 

ITU

5 key Tech, Media and Telecom predictions for 2020, revised in light of COVID-19: Deloitte (4 March 2020): https://news.itu.int/5-key-tech-media-and-telecom-predictions-for-2020-revised-in-light-of-covid-19-deloitte/

OCHA

In Ecuador, a coordinated humanitarian response to COVID-19 (4 May 2020): https://www.unocha.org/story/ecuador-coordinated-humanitarian-response-covid-19

COVID-19: Older people at risk but resilient (4 May 2020): https://www.unocha.org/story/covid-19-older-people-risk-resilient ,  https://unocha.exposure.co/covid19-older-people-at-risk-but-resilient

UN humanitarian chief: After COVID-19, it’s in everyone’s interest to help the world’s poorest countries (4 May 2020): https://www.unocha.org/story/un-humanitarian-chief-after-covid-19-it%E2%80%99s-everyone%E2%80%99s-interest-help-worlds-poorest-countries

OHCHR

UN rights expert urges States to step-up anti-slavery efforts and protect most vulnerable amid COVID-19 (5 May 2020): https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx? NewsID=25863&LangID=E

Marlene Urscheler, doing human rights work during the COVID-19 pandemic (4 May 2020): https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/UNHRStaffandCOVID19.aspx

The High Comissioner Video message on Covid-19 and Migrants: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=25861&LangID=E

UN-Habitat

Opinion: Slums are the next front line in the fight against the coronavirus (4 May 2020): https://unhabitat.org/opinion-slums-are-the-next-front-line-in-the-fight-against-the-coronavirus

Supporting those in informal settlements and economy during COVID-19 and beyond (4 May 2020): https://unhabitat.org/supporting-those-in-informal-settlements-and-economy-during-covid-19-and-beyond

How Life in Our Cities Will Look After the Coronavirus Pandemic (4 May 2020): https://unhabitat.org/how-life-in-our-cities-will-look-after-the-coronavirus-pandemic

UNAIDS

Behind the Front Lines: human faces of the #COVID19 response (4 May 2020): https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/covid-blog

UNCTAD

How investment policies are responding to COVID-19 (4 May 2020): https://unctad.org/en/pages/newsdetails.aspx?OriginalVersionID=2353

When it rains it pours: COVID-19 exacerbates poverty risks in the poorest countries (4 May 2020): https://unctad.org/en/pages/newsdetails.aspx?OriginalVersionID=2356

UNEP

There are no winners in the illegal trade in wildlife (5 May 2020): http://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/there-are-no-winners-illegal-trade-wildlife

Faith-based organizations can help the transition to a more sustainable post-COVID-19 world (4 May 2020): http://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/faith-based-organizations-can-help-transition-more-sustainable-post-covid-19

UNFPA

Mothers, midwives risking their lives to bring new life into the world (4 May 2020): https://www.unfpa.org/news/mothers-midwives-risking-their-lives-bring-new-life-world

UNICEF

Schools remain locked for more than 127 million children in Eastern and Southern Africa (4 May 2020): https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/schools-remain-locked-more-127-million-children-eastern-and-southern-africa

Let’s move humanity for children in the fight against coronavirus: https://www.unicef.org/coronavirus/join-greta

UPU

IATA / UPU Warn of Air Capacity Shortage (4 May 2020): http://news.upu.int/no_cache/nd/iata-upu-warn-of-air-capacity-shortage/

WFP

The United Arab Emirates supports the establishment of a global humanitarian lifeline to nations most exposed to COVID-19 (4 May 2020): https://www.wfp.org/news/united-arab-emirates-supports-establishment-global-humanitarian-lifeline-nations-most-exposed

WTO

WTO report looks at role of e-commerce during the COVID-19 pandemic (4 May 2020): https://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news20_e/rese_04may20_e.htm

WORLD BANK

Food Security and COVID-19 (4 May 2020): http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/agriculture/brief/food-security-and-covid-19

COVID-19 Trade Policy Database: Food and Medical Products (4 May 2020): http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/trade/brief/coronavirus-covid-19-trade-policy-database-food-and-medical-products

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