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Music, talent and hope, unite millions across the world online in support of coronavirus workers
Together At Home event, saw many of the biggest names in music join the UN health agency and Global Citizen movement in supporting the millions…
Libya: Historic discrimination threatens right to health of minorities in the south amid COVID-19
The Libyan authorities and militias in control of southern cities and towns and international donors must ensure that those most marginalized are factored into their…
Canada funds oil sector environmental cleanup during pandemic
Trudeau on Friday announced Can$1.7 billion (US$1.2 billion) to help Canada’s oil sector, struggling with low prices, survive a pandemic-related downturn by cleaning up environmental…
Analysis: Should you be wearing a face mask during the pandemic?
From Tokyo to Turin, Tallinn to Toronto, through vastly different countries, with different cultures and governments – this crisis has produced a surprisingly, global, uniformed…
Supply of protective gowns ’critical’, say hospitals in England
Many frontline doctors treating coronavirus patients in the UK are suffering from a shortage of basic protective equipment, according to research by the British Medical…
Doctors Without Borders splits from sea rescue partner over coronavirus policy
Doctors Without Borders has ended a cooperation saving migrants stranded at sea after its partner suspended rescue missions due to the coronavirus. The NGO has…
’Nature welcomes the change’: with no tourists, wildlife roams California’s Yosemite
A bear ambles across a forest glade and a herd of deer stroll down a silent road. At Yosemite National Park in Northern California, coronavirus…
Bangladesh garment workers pack streets to demand wages during coronavirus lockdown
Hundreds of workers poured onto the streets of Bangladesh’s port city of Chittagong on Saturday, flouting social distancing rules to demand work and wages during…
Tough times for tourism, but UN travel organization predicts holiday traffic will return
Tourism may have been brought to a near-standstill by COVID-19, but the industry – which accounts for 10 per cent of global GDP – finds…
Italy declares victory over Covid-19 in poorer south
Italian health officials declared victory Friday over the coronavirus in the poorer southern regions, where hospitals had been stretched to breaking point under the strain…
FAO welcomes $10 million donation from Mastercard Foundation to fight Desert Locusts in East Africa
FAO Director-General QU Dongyu has welcomed a $10 million donation from Mastercard Foundation to step up the fight against the Desert Locust outbreak in East…
Lebanon’s coronavirus lockdown leaves migrant women penniless and stranded
Most of Lebanon’s migrant domestic workers are from Ethiopia. There are about 145,000 Ethiopian women registered as migrant workers in Lebanon, though advocacy groups believe…
China economy shrinks for first time as Wuhan Covid-19 death toll is increased by 1,300
China’s economy shrank 6.8% in the three months of 2020, the country’s first such contraction on record and a stark sign of the financial impact…
World economy ’may face double recession’
The world economy already faces an economic downturn worse than the Great Depression. But this could be followed by another “possibly much worse downturn”, according…
UN chief calls for greater protection for children caught up in COVID-19 crisis
The looming global recession resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic could cause hundreds of thousands of additional child deaths this year, effectively reversing recent gains in…
Fast-fashion nightmare for Bangladeshi clothes makers
Big-name international brands have cancelled billions of dollars in orders because of the pandemic, decimating Bangladesh’s most important export industry and hurting in particular rural…
G7 to coordinate economic reopening plans amid outbreak
G7 leaders on Thursday pledged to work together to ”safely” put people back to work as the coronavirus crisis drags on in a bid to…
Coronavirus: EU apologizes to Italy for initial response
Members of the European Parliament are meeting on Thursday to discuss greater protection for EU citizens in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. In her…
EU waste exports up 66% since 2004
Waste exports from the EU to other parts of the world have risen two-thirds (+66%) since 2004, but remained stable from 2018 to 2019, the…
Migrants among most vulnerable, as IOM ramps up coronavirus response worldwide
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has expanded the scope of its Global Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan (SPRP), to include far-reaching interventions that aim to…
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