WHO
Hard fought gains in immunization coverage at risk without critical health services, warns WHO (23 April 2020): https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/23-04-2020-hard-fought-gains-in-immunization-coverage-at-risk-without-critical-health-services-warns-who
UN News
Economic impact of coronavirus threatens hard-won progress across Africa’s Great Lakes region (22 April 2020): https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/04/1062422
Still ‘a long way to go’ in coronavirus battle, WHO chief warns (22 April 2020): https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/04/1062372
COVID-19: 5G broadband conspiracy ‘a hoax with no technical basis’, UN telecoms agency (22 April 2020): https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/04/1062362
Fall in COVID-linked carbon emissions won’t halt climate change – UN weather agency chief (22 April 2020): https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/04/1062332
COVID-19 pandemic, an ‘unprecedented wake-up call’ for all inhabitants of Mother Earth (22 April 2020): https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/04/1062322
DGC
We are all in this Together: Human Rights and COVID-19 Response and Recovery / by António Guterres (23 April 2020): https://www.un.org/en/un-coronavirus-communications-team/we-are-all-together-human-rights-and-covid-19-response-and
Policy Brief: https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/un_policy_brief_on_human_rights_and_covid_23_april_2020.pdf
UN urges countries to ‘build back better’ (23 April 2020): https://www.un.org/en/un-coronavirus-communications-team/un-urges-countries-%E2%80%98build-back-better%E2%80%99
DESA
COVID-19 response demands better use of science and technology (22 April 2020): https://www.un.org/development/desa/en/news/policy/covid-19-response-demands-better-use-of-science-and-technology.html
SG
Secretary-General Tells Young Women ‘World Cannot Afford to Lose Your Talent’ in Technology Battle against Pandemic, Marking International Day (SG/SM/20054, 22 April 2020): https://www.un.org/press/en/2020/sgsm20054.doc.htm
DSG
Deputy Secretary-General Hails Agile COVID-19 Responses in Organization’s Health, Humanitarian, Development Work, Addressing UN Agency Boards (DSG/SM/1403, 21 April 2020): https://www.un.org/press/en/2020/dsgsm1403.doc.htm
GA
- Virtual Town Hall Meeting for Member and Observer States, 22 Apr 2020
Letter dated 22 April 2020 from the co-coordinators for the General Assembly on COVID-19-related initiatives regarding the virtual town hall meeting to take place on Monday, 27 April 2020, at 11:00 a.m.
https://www.un.org/pga/74/2020/04/22/virtual-town-hall-meeting-for-member-and-observer-states/ - Declaration of solidarity of the United Nations in the face of the challenges posed by the coronavirus disease 2019, 22 Apr 2020
https://www.un.org/pga/74/2020/04/22/declaration-of-solidarity-of-the-united-nations-in-the-face-of-the-challenges-posed-by-the-coronavirus-disease-2019-2/ - United response against global health threats: combating COVID-19, 22 Apr 2020
https://www.un.org/pga/74/2020/04/22/united-response-against-global-health-threats-combating-covid-19-2/
FAO
FAO urges at G20 meeting protection of food supply chains amid COVID-19 threat (21 April 2020): http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/1272077/icode/
ICAO
Potentially 1.2 billion fewer international air travellers by September 2020, says new ICAO forecast (22 April 2020): https://www.icao.int/Newsroom/Pages/Potentially-billion-fewer-international-air-travellers.aspx
IFAD
Recovery, reactivation and resilience: Confronting COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean (22 April 2020): https://www.ifad.org/web/latest/blog/asset/41889635
As Earth Day adopts a climate action theme, let’s not forget about smallholder farmers (22 April 2020): https://www.ifad.org/web/latest/blog/asset/41889858
ILO
ILO welcomes joint action to tackle COVID-19 threats to global garment industry (22 April 2020): https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_742446/lang–en/index.htm
IMF
New on the website for “The IMF and COVID-19” direct link to IMF COVID-19 Hub, Policy Tracker, Emergency Financing, Special Series: https://www.imf.org/external/index.htm
The Short-term Liquidity Line: A New IMF Tool to Help in the Crisis (22 April 2020): https://blogs.imf.org/2020/04/22/the-short-term-liquidity-line-a-new-imf-tool-to-help-in-the-crisis/
CGD Conversations on COVID-19 and Development: Antoinette Sayeh (22 April 2020): https://www.cgdev.org/event/cgd-conversations-covid-19-and-development-antoinette-sayeh
IMF COVID-19 Response—A New Short-Term Liquidity Line to Enhance The Adequacy Of The Global Financial Safety Net, Policy Paper No. 20//025 (22 April 2020): https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/Policy-Papers/Issues/2020/04/21/IMF-COVID-19-Response-A-New-Short-Term-Liquidity-Line-to-Enhance-The-Adequacy-Of-The-Global-49356
IMO
“You are not alone” – IMO Secretary-General issues impassioned personal message to seafarers (21 April 2020): http://www.imo.org/en/MediaCentre/PressBriefings/Pages/13-seafarer-message.aspx
IOM
Migrants and the COVID-19 pandemic: An initial analysis (22 April 2020): https://publications.iom.int/system/files/pdf/mrs-60.pdf
OCHA
South Sudan: Dire food security situation could worsen with COVID-19 (22 April 2020): https://www.unocha.org/story/south-sudan-dire-food-security-situation-could-worsen-covid-19
OHCHR
Raising women’s voices and leadership in COVID-19 policies (22 April 2029): https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=25818&LangID=E
UN expert outlines urgent steps to ensure justice systems are not paralysed by COVID-19 (22 April 2020): https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=25816&LangID=E
Responses to COVID-19 are failing people in poverty worldwide” – UN human rights expert (22 April 2020): https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=25815&LangID=E
UN expert warns against religious hatred and intolerance during COVID-19 outbreak (22 April 2020): https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=25814&LangID=E
UN WOMEN
Imprisoned, quarantined women need hygiene supplies in El Salvador (22 April 2020): https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2020/4/feature-quarantined-women-need-hygiene-supplies-in-el-salvador
I am Generation Equality: Ramida “Jennie” Juengpaisal, designer and developer of a COVID-19 tracker in Thailand (22 April 2020): https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2020/4/i-am-generation-equality-ramida-juengpaisal
UN-Habitat
UN-Habitat launches COVID-19 Response Plan and Campaign targeting the world’s most vulnerable communities (23 April 2020): https://unhabitat.org/un-habitat-launches-covid-19-response-plan-and-campaign-targeting-the-world%E2%80%99s-most-vulnerable-0
UNECE
COVID-19 News & Press Releases: https://www.unece.org/info/media/covid-19-news-press-releases.html
UNESCAP
Outpacing COVID-19: Key innovations prompt early warning for early actions (21 April 2020): https://www.unescap.org/blog/outpacing-covid-19-key-innovations-prompt-early-warning-early-actions
UNESCO
How the Republic of Korea flattened the COVID-19 curve: openness, transparency and democracy (22 April 2020): https://en.unesco.org/news/how-republic-korea-flattened-covid-19-curve-openness-transparency-and-democracy
4 webinars against disinformation on Covid-19 in the Sahel (22 April 2020): https://en.unesco.org/news/4-webinars-against-disinformation-covid-19-sahel
UNESCWA
ESCWA warns of a historic decline in foreign direct investment in the Arab region due to COVID-19 (23 April 2020): https://www.unescwa.org/news/escwa-warns-historic-decline-foreign-direct-investment-arab-region-due-covid-19
UNFPA
Learning from Ebola experience, Liberia deploys contact tracers to break COVID-19 transmission (22 April 2020): https://www.unfpa.org/news/learning-ebola-experience-liberia-deploys-contact-tracers-break-covid-19-transmission
UNHCR
Beware long-term damage to human rights and refugee rights from the coronavirus pandemic: UNHCR (22 April 2020): https://www.unhcr.org/news/press/2020/4/5ea035ba4/beware-long-term-damage-human-rights-refugee-rights-coronavirus-pandemic.html
Refugees start blog to share information on coronavirus (22 April 2020): https://www.unhcr.org/news/stories/2020/4/5e9fea1b4/refugees-start-blog-share-information-coronavirus.html
UNODC
Wildlife trafficking harms animals and human health – the case of Pangolins (22 April 2020): https://www.unodc.org/unodc/frontpage/2020/April/wildlife-trafficking-harms-animals-and-human-health—the-case-of-pangolins.html
Wildlife Crime – Pangolin scales: https://www.unodc.org/documents/wwcr/2020/Wildlife_crime_Pangolin_UNODC.pdf
The Wildlife Crime – Pangolin scales report is just one chapter of the World Wildlife Crime Report 2020: https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/wildlife.html
UNODC and Partners adapt to COVID-19 restrictions with use of online counter-terrorism learning platform (21 April 2020): https://www.unodc.org/unodc/frontpage/2020/April/unodc-and-partners-adapt-to-covid-19-restrictions-with-use-of-online-counter-terrorism-learning-platform.html
UNV
Skilled UN Volunteers join the fight against COVID-19 in West and Central Africa (19 April 2020): https://www.unv.org/Success-stories/Skilled-UN-Volunteers-join-fight-against-COVID-19-West-and-Central-Africa
UNV invests in COVID-19 response (11 April 2020): https://www.unv.org/Success-stories/UNV-invests-COVID-19-response
WFP
WFP chief warns of ‘hunger pandemic’ as Global Food Crises Report launched (22 April 2020): https://insight.wfp.org/wfp-chief-warns-of-hunger-pandemic-as-global-food-crises-report-launched-3ee3edb38e47
WORLD BANK
World Bank Predicts Sharpest Decline of Remittances in Recent History (22 April 2020): https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2020/04/22/world-bank-predicts-sharpest-decline-of-remittances-in-recent-history
Energy access takes center stage in fighting COVID-19 (Coronavirus) and powering recovery in Africa (22 April 2020): http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/opinion/2020/04/22/energy-access-critical-to-overcoming-covid-19-in-africa