COVID-19: Aggiornamento dal sistema ONU – 29 Maggio

WHO

How WHO is supporting refugees and migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic (28 May 2020): https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/how-who-is-supporting-refugees-and-migrants-during-the-covid-19-pandemic

WHO-Europe

Recovery must lead to a different economy, an economy of well-being (28 May 2020): http://www.euro.who.int/en/media-centre/sections/statements/2020/statement-recovery-must-lead-to-a-different-economy,-an-economy-of-well-being

Experience of health professionals, police staff and prisoners in Italy informs WHO COVID-19 guidelines for prisons (28 May 2020): http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/health-emergencies/coronavirus-covid-19/news/news/2020/5/experience-of-health-professionals,-police-staff-and-prisoners-in-italy-informs-who-covid-19-guidelines-for-prisons2

New WHO/Europe guidance shows more can be done to protect people in need of long-term care during the COVID-19 pandemic (28 May 2020): http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/health-emergencies/coronavirus-covid-19/news/news/2020/5/new-whoeurope-guidance-shows-more-can-be-done-to-protect-people-in-need-of-long-term-care-during-the-covid-19-pandemic2

UN News

Security Council: Paralysis and ‘political infighting’ must end, to boost COVID-19 fight: EU foreign affairs chief (28 May 2020): https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/05/1065022

COVID-19: Act now or risk ‘unimaginable devastation’ globally, warns UN chief (28 May 2020): https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/05/1065002

Yemen: Humanitarians seeking $2.41 billion to keep aid flowing amid COVID-19 pandemic (28 May 2020): https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/05/1064992

DGC

‘Verified’ initiative aims to flood digital space with facts amid COVID-19 crisis (28 May 2020): https://www.un.org/en/coronavirus/%E2%80%98verified%E2%80%99-initiative-aims-flood-digital-space-facts-amid-covid-19-crisis

SG

COVID-19 Exposes Global Fragility, Secretary-General Tells High-level Event, Citing Failures on Climate, Nuclear non-proliferation, ‘Lawless Cyberspace’ (SG/SM/20100, 28 May 2020): https://www.un.org/press/en/2020/sgsm20100.doc.htm

Secretary-General Warns of Grim Post-Pandemic Future, Predicting ‘Historic’ Hunger, Famine, in Remarks to High-Level Event on Financing for Development (SG/SM/20098, 28 May 2020): https://www.un.org/press/en/2020/sgsm20098.doc.htm

FAO

Using innovation to deliver in Somalia despite COVID-19 (28 May 2020): http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/1277798/icode/

IAEA

Emergency Response During COVID-19: IAEA’s Incident and Emergency Centre (28 May 2020): https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/multimedia/videos/emergency-response-during-covid-19-iaeas-incident-and-emergency-centre 

IFAD

Mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on small-scale agriculture in The Gambia (28 May 2020): https://www.ifad.org/en/web/latest/story/asset/41941658

ILO

Trade Union Movement: Recovering from the Covid-19 crisis: what policies are needed? (29 May 2020): https://www.ilo.org/actrav/media-center/news/WCMS_746322/lang–en/index.htm

IMF

Opening Remarks at UN Event on Financing for Development in the Era of COVID-19: By Kristalina Georgieva, IMF Managing Director (28 May 2020): https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2020/05/28/sp052820-opening-remarks-at-un-event-on-financing-for-development-in-the-era-of-covid-19

UN-Habitat

Habitat Professionals Forum (HPF) Statement On COVID-19 Pandemic (29 May 2020): https://unhabitat.org/habitat-professionals-forum-hpf-statement-on-covid-19-pandemic

Webinar: Urban-Rural Linkages in the time of COVID-19, Metropolitan Perspectives (28 May 2020): https://unhabitat.org/webinar-urban-rural-linkages-in-the-time-of-covid-19-metropolitan-perspectives

COVID-19 must be addressed through international solidarity and cooperation (28 May 2020): https://unhabitat.org/covid-19-must-be-addressed-through-international-solidarity-and-cooperation

Experts discuss the central role of urban planning in the post pandemic recovery (28 May 2020): https://unhabitat.org/experts-discuss-the-central-role-of-urban-planning-in-the-post-pandemic-recovery

UN-Habitat’s COVID-19 response in Philippines provides displaced families with easy access to markets with affordable food (28 May 2020): https://unhabitat.org/un-habitat%E2%80%99s-covid-19-response-in-philippines-provides-displaced-families-with-easy-access-to

UNAIDS

Feature story: “My biggest concern is to get my antiretroviral medicines”: HIV and COVID-19 in Latin America (28 May 2020): https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/featurestories/2020/may/20200528_MLCM

UNECA

Now is the time for Africa to digitize land registries, says Joan Kagwanja (28 May 2020): https://www.uneca.org/stories/now-time-africa-digitize-land-registries-says-joan-kagwanja 

UNEP

What COVID-19 means for ecotourism (29 May 2020): https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/story/what-covid-19-means-ecotourism

UNESCO

How to respond to tsunamis in times of social distancing? Follow the regional guidelines (28 May 2020): https://en.unesco.org/news/how-respond-tsunamis-times-social-distancing-follow-regional-guidelines

Effective leadership in crisis: What it takes for ministries of education (26 May 2020): http://www.iiep.unesco.org/en/effective-leadership-crisis-what-it-takes-ministries-education-13429

SURVEY on How COVD-19 has Affected the Youth – Youth As Researchers Project (28 May 2020): https://en.unesco.org/news/survey-how-covd-19-has-affected-youth-youth-researchers-project

UNESCO warns against ‘perfect storm’ threatening freedom of expression amid COVID-19 (28 May 2020): https://en.unesco.org/news/unesco-warns-against-perfect-storm-threatening-freedom-expression-amid-covid-19 

UNHCR

UNHCR helps displaced Syrian-Armenians facing hardship amid pandemic (28 May 2020): https://www.unhcr.org/news/stories/2020/5/5ecf78874/

UNWTO

UNWTO Launches Global Guidelines to Reopen Tourism (28 May 2020): https://www.unwto.org/news/unwto-launches-global-guidelines-to-reopen-tourism

UPU

UPU reports record drop in global postal volumes (28 May 2020): http://news.upu.int/no_cache/nd/upu-reports-record-drop-in-global-postal-volumes-1/

Trucks and trains continue to take strain of mail delivery between China and Europe (28 May 2020): http://news.upu.int/no_cache/nd/trucks-and-trains-continue-to-take-strain-of-mail-delivery-between-china-and-europe/

WFP

Statement on Yemen by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (28 May 2020): https://www.wfp.org/news/statement-yemen-principals-inter-agency-standing-committee

WFP ramps up support to people affected by the socio-economic fallout from coronavirus in Chad (28 May 2020): https://www.wfp.org/news/wfp-ramps-support-people-affected-socio-economic-fallout-coronavirus-chad

Coronavirus puts 14 million people at risk of missing meals in Latin America and the Caribbean (27 May 2020): https://insight.wfp.org/covid-19-puts-14-million-people-at-risk-of-missing-meals-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-a54e42789153

WTO

2020 WTO Public Forum cancelled (28 May 2020): https://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news20_e/pf20_28may20_e.htm

WORLD BANK

Media Advisory: World Bank Issues New Notes (on the impact of COVID-19) on Health, Poverty, Education, Labor, Social Protection, and Air Quality in Western Balkans (29 May 2020): http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/statement/2020/05/29/media-advisory-wb-rer-notes

 

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