Avainsana: Pandemic
Child Marriage, Pregnancies Soar During Pandemic
The world was making real progress toward ending child marriage – until the pandemic. Adolescent pregnancies were falling too, especially among girls under age 15…
Pandemic boosting demand for plant-based foods, Nestle says
Demand for plant-based foods has picked up during the coronavirus crisis as consumers try to eat more healthily and problems at some factories have hit…
COVID pushes millions more children deeper into poverty, new study finds
The coronavirus pandemic has pushed an additional 150 million children into multidimensional poverty – deprived of education, health, housing, nutrition, sanitation or water – a…
Countries must ‘get their hands dirty’ to stem COVID and prevent future pandemics
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended a world embroiled in chaos, unleashing catastrophic health, social and economic consequences along with irreparable harm to humanity, according to…
Protests against virus restrictions in Germany, Poland
Several thousand people protested in German cities on Saturday against measures imposed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, while hundreds marched in the Polish…
Pandemic pushes world’s biggest jobs programme to brink in rural India
Omkar Rathod was thankful for the company of hundreds of fellow migrant workers as they trudged home to far-flung villages once lockdown had shut Indian…
Hitting women hard, pandemic makes gender poverty gap wider – U.N.
The coronavirus pandemic will widen the poverty gap between women and men, pushing 47 million more women and girls into impoverished lives by next year,…
Covid vaccine rush could make pandemic worse, say scientists
The rush to immunise populations against Covid-19 could lead to the rollout of a vaccine that is not very effective and risk worsening the pandemic,…
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