UN News
COVID-19: Recovery will be slower following ‘crisis like no other’, IMF predicts (24 June 2020): https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/06/1067052
Coronavirus: 10 million infections milestone looms – WHO’s Tedros (24 June 2020): https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/06/1067042
170 signatories endorse UN ceasefire appeal during COVID crisis (24 June 2020): https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/06/1066982
DPPA
Policy Note: The United Nations Secretary-General’s Call for a Global Ceasefire: Challenges and Opportunities, 23 June 2020: https://peacemaker.un.org/sites/peacemaker.un.org/files/Policy%20Note%20Ceasefire%20Call%20Challenges%20Opportunities_0.pdf
DGC
Never waste a crisis: Corporations invest to ‘recover better’ from COVID-19 (24 June 2020): https://www.un.org/en/coronavirus/never-waste-crisis-corporations-invest-%E2%80%98recover-better%E2%80%99-covid-19
ILO
ILO warns of COVID-19 migrant ‘crisis within a crisis’ (24 June 2020): https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_748992/lang–en/index.htm
COVID-19 and labour migration (24 June 2020): https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/multimedia/video/institutional-videos/WCMS_749041/lang–en/index.htm
Migrant workers among the hardest hit by COVID-19 pandemic (24 June 2020): https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/multimedia/video/institutional-videos/WCMS_748989/lang–en/index.htm
IMF
Reopening from the Great Lockdown: Uneven and Uncertain Recovery (24 June 2020): https://blogs.imf.org/2020/06/24/reopening-from-the-great-lockdown-uneven-and-uncertain-recovery/
Joint Response for Latin America and the Caribbean to Counter the COVID-19 Crisis (24 June 2020): https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2020/06/24/sp062420-a-joint-response-for-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-to-counter-the-covid-19-crisis
World Economic Outlook Update, June 2020: https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/Issues/2020/06/24/WEOUpdateJune2020
IMO
Day of the Seafarer 2020 – 25 June: http://www.imo.org/en/About/Events/dayoftheseafarer/Pages/Day-of-the-Seafarer-2020.aspx
OCHA
UN humanitarian chief: Yemen will ‘fall off the cliff’ without adequate support for the humanitarian and COVID-19 response (24 June 2020): https://www.unocha.org/story/un-humanitarian-chief-yemen-will-%E2%80%98fall-cliff%E2%80%99-without-adequate-support-humanitarian-and-covid
OHCHR
Working together to better protect South Sudan’s vulnerable during COVID-19 (23 June 2020): https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/Voices-from-the-Field-South-Sudan.aspx
UN WOMEN
Tech giants partner with UN Women to provide life-saving information to survivors of domestic violence during COVID-19 (24 June 2020): https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2020/6/news-tech-giants-provide-life-saving-information-during-covid-19
UN Women supports Maasai women-led enterprises to respond to COVID-19 (24 June 2020): https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2020/6/feature-maasai-women-led-enterprises-to-respond-to-covid-19
Inter-Agency statement on violence against women and girls in the context of COVID-19 (24 June 2020): https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2020/6/statement-inter-agency-statement-on-violence-against-women-and-girls–in-the-context-of-covid-19
UNAIDS
UNAIDS Executive Director sets out HIV/COVID-19 landscape at opening of PCB meeting (24 June 2020): https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/pressreleaseandstatementarchive/2020/june/20200624_opening-pcb-meeting
UNCDF
Vanuatu Joins Global Call-To-Action on Remittances during COVID-19 (24 June 2020): https://www.uncdf.org/article/5781/vanuatu-joins-global-call-to-action-on-remittances-during-covid-19
UNDP
UNDP remains the most transparent UN agency, according to new index: New COVID-19 page on UNDP Transparency Portal launched (24 June 2020): https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/news-centre/news/2020/Aid_Transparency_Index_UNDP_remains_most_transparent_UN_agency.html
UNDP Transparency Portal – COVID-19 Response: https://open.undp.org/our-approaches/undpcr
Protecting young startups during COVID-19 (24 June 2020): https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/blog/2020/protecting-young-start-ups-during-covid-19.html
UNECA
Renewable energy investments crucial in Africa’s efforts to build back better post COVID-19 (24 June 2020): https://www.uneca.org/stories/renewable-energy-investments-crucial-africa%E2%80%99s-efforts-build-back-better-post-covid-19
UNESCAP
UN webinar to spotlight best practices of China, Japan and Republic of Korea in managing COVID-19 – 2 July 2020, Thursday, 15:00-16:30 (Tokyo time GMT+9): https://www.unescap.org/news/un-webinar-spotlight-best-practices-china-japan-and-republic-korea-managing-covid-19
UNHCR
Syrian family awaits end of lockdown to start new life in Norway (24 June 2020): https://www.unhcr.org/news/stories/2020/6/5ef351b84/syrian-family-awaits-end-lockdown-start-new-life-norway.html
UNIDO
Pakistani start-up repurposes to help healthcare system cope with pandemic (23 June 2020): https://www.unido.org/stories/pakistani-start-repurposes-help-healthcare-system-cope-pandemic
UNU
Webinar – COVID-19 and Centralized Power, 2 July: https://unu.edu/events/upcoming/covid-19-and-centralized-power.html
As COVID-19 has escalated into a pandemic, a political debate has been raging about whether autocracies or democracies are better at fighting epidemics.
Professor Yuen Yuen Ang of the University of Michigan will join the UNU-WIDER Webinar Series on 2 July 2020 to discuss her article on China’s response to the pandemic. Prof. Ang will explain why this debate is misguided, and attempt to deliver a balanced account of how China has handled the COVID-19 outbreak, arguing that we must distinguish the impact of regime types from other factors on governments’ responses to the crisis.
WORLD BANK
Female Parliamentarians in the fight against COVID-19 Video Series (24 June 2020): https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2020/06/24/female-parliamentarians-in-the-fight-against-covid-19-video-series