COVID-19: Aggiornamenti dal sistema ONU – 9 Giugno

UN News

FROM THE FIELD: The UN’s mission to transform agriculture, for people and planet (9 June 2020): https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/06/1065912

Solidarity is the world’s ‘best line of defence’: UN General Assembly president (8 June 2020): https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/06/1065932

‘Stand strong’ for justice over impunity, Security Council hears (8 June 2020): https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/06/1065922

Coronavirus: World Bank confirms deepest recession since World War Two (8 June 2020): https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/06/1065902

No time to take ‘foot off the pedal’ as coronavirus pandemic worsens: WHO (8 June 2020): https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/06/1065892

DESA

A vaccine will not end the pandemic unless everyone can get it (8 June 2020): https://www.un.org/development/desa/en/news/nocat-uncategorized/a-vaccine-will-not-end-the-pandemic-unless-everyone-can-get-it.html

GA

Statement by H.E. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, President of the General Assembly – Opening remarks at the Virtual press conference (8 June 2020): https://www.un.org/pga/74/2020/06/08/virtual-press-conference/

FAO

From bustling Omani fish markets to online auctions: Digital innovation is boosting the fisheries supply chain in Oman during COVID-19 (8 June 2020): http://www.fao.org/fao-stories/article/en/c/1278611/

Making FAO more efficient and inclusive for better production, nutrition, environment and life (8 June 2020): http://www.fao.org/director-general/news/news-article/en/c/1279815/

IFAD

From Meghalaya to Jharkhand, how India is ensuring agri supply chains are not disrupted (8 June 2020): https://www.ifad.org/web/latest/blog/asset/41958002

Maintaining critical extension services for smallholders during COVID-19 (8 June 2020): https://www.ifad.org/web/latest/blog/asset/41957955 

Keeping exports flowing: Saving development gains in Rwanda (8 June 2020): https://www.ifad.org/en/web/latest/story/asset/41957110

ILO

ILO: Release more than 150,000 seafarers trapped on board ships due to COVID-19 (8 June 2020): https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_747293/lang–en/index.htm

Include the ocean economy in the response to COVID-19 – Statement by  ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder (8 June 2020): https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/statements-and-speeches/WCMS_747301/lang–en/index.htm

What are the policy solutions to the COVID-19 youth employment crisis? (8 June 2020): https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/multimedia/video/institutional-videos/WCMS_747250/lang–en/index.htm

IOM

IOM Releases Global Guidance on International Recruitment and Protection of Migrant Workers (8 June 2020): https://www.iom.int/news/iom-releases-global-guidance-international-recruitment-and-protection-migrant-workers

OCHA

Adapting the global humanitarian response to COVID-19 to include older people (8 June 2020): https://www.unocha.org/story/adapting-global-humanitarian-response-covid-19-include-older-people

UN WOMEN

Tajik businesses run by women living with HIV supply key protective gear for COVID-19 response (8 June 2020): https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2020/6/feature-tajik-businesses-run-by-women-living-with-hiv-supply-key-protective-gear

UN-Habitat

First COVID-19 Urban Thinkers Campus Series ends with key recommendations (8 June 2020): https://unhabitat.org/first-covid-19-urban-thinkers-campus-series-ends-with-key-recommendations

Journalists discuss the challenges of reporting during pandemics in COVID-19 Urban Thinkers Campus (8 June 2020): https://unhabitat.org/journalists-discuss-the-challenges-of-reporting-during-pandemics-in-covid-19-urban-thinkers-campus

Youth in Fiji raise awareness in informal settlements on COVID-19 through colourful murals (8 June 2020): https://unhabitat.org/journalists-discuss-the-challenges-of-reporting-during-pandemics-in-covid-19-urban-thinkers-campus

Fighting COVID-19 in Africa’s informal settlements (8 June 2020): https://unhabitat.org/fighting-covid-19-in-africa%E2%80%99s-informal-settlements 

UNCTAD

COVID-19 offers opportunity to save our ocean (8 June 2020): https://unctad.org/en/pages/newsdetails.aspx?OriginalVersionID=2387 

UNDP

COVID-19 could prove “disastrous” for impoverished Zimbabwe, UNDP study finds (8 June 2020): https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/news-centre/news/2020/COVID19_could_prove_disastrous_for_impoverished_Zimbabwe.html

The ocean and COVID-19 (8 June 2020): https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/blog/2020/the-ocean-and-covid-19.html

UNECA

Covid-19 Aftermath: Policy Dialogue on Building Back Better with African Youth set for Tuesday (8 June 2020): https://www.uneca.org/stories/covid-19-aftermath-policy-dialogue-building-back-better-african-youth-set-tuesday

UNECE

Executive Secretary’s Blog: Environmental democracy in times of COVID-19‎ (5 June 2020): http://www.unece.org/info/media/executive-secretary-blog/2020/environmental-democracy-in-times-of-covid-19/doc.html

UNEP

For people on the front lines of climate change and conflict, COVID-19 is a new challenge (9 June 2020): https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/story/people-front-lines-climate-change-and-conflict-covid-19-new-challenge 

UNESCAP

United Nations ESCAP and Good Return team up to provide a financial injection for women SMEs in the times of COVID-19 (8 June 2020): https://www.unescap.org/news/united-nations-escap-and-good-return-team-provide-financial-injection-women-smes-times-covid#   

UNESCO

UNESCO launches webinar series for the World Network of Biosphere Reserves in times of COVID19 pandemic (8 June 2020): https://en.unesco.org/news/unesco-launches-webinar-series-world-network-biosphere-reserves-times-covid19-pandemic

UN agencies empowering children and young people in the face of COVID-19 (8 June 2020): https://en.unesco.org/news/agencies-empowering-children-and-young-people-face-covid-19

UNIDO

UNIDO launches COVID-19 Industrial Recovery Programme: https://www.unido.org/news/unido-launches-covid-19-industrial-recovery-programme

WORLD BANK

Brief – Projected poverty impacts of COVID-19 (coronavirus) (8 June 2020): https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/brief/projected-poverty-impacts-of-COVID-19

Feature Story – The Global Economic Outlook During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Changed World (8 June 2020): https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2020/06/08/the-global-economic-outlook-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-a-changed-world

COVID-19 to Plunge Global Economy into Worst Recession since World War II (8 June 2020): https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2020/06/08/covid-19-to-plunge-global-economy-into-worst-recession-since-world-war-ii

https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2020/06/08/covid-19-to-plunge-global-economy-into-worst-recession-since-world-war-ii (8 June 2020): http://www.worldbank.org/en/region/eca/brief/global-economic-prospects-europe-and-central-asia

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