This article by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is the foreword to the UNA-UK’s report Climate 2020: The path ahead The recovery from COVID-19 should be focused on securing a sustainable, equitable and resilient future. There are six climate actions that … Continue reading →
On 23 March 2020 the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, appealed to all warring parties across the world to lay down their arms in support of the bigger battle against COVID-19 — the common enemy that is now threatening … Continue reading →
We recently heard the BBC refer to SARS-CoV-2, a name we had not heard before, so we did a little research. On 11 February 2020, the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) [1] announced that the name of the … Continue reading →
This article is based on one originally published by EN24.news on 24 April 2020. During a tele-conversation called “Multilateralism in the Time of COVID-19” organised by the UN Office in Geneva as part of UN75, students told the heads of … Continue reading →
Everyone, everywhere is entitled to the protection and promotion of his or her human rights, from the right to education and health, to rights at work. To bring youth voices to the forefront of action and policy responses, the Global … Continue reading →
Some people claim that COVID-19 is the world’s biggest threat since the end of World War II. It has galvanised governments into action because it is an immediate and obvious danger. But, within a couple of years, there will be … Continue reading →
On 26 March the leaders of the world’s largest economies (G20) met in an Extraordinary Leaders Summit on COVID-19. They issued a statement [1] which said: “The G20 is committed to do whatever it takes to overcome the pandemic, along … Continue reading →
We reported on 26 March [1] that the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) launched the COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan (Global HRP) which aims to raise $2 billion to fight the virus in 53 of … Continue reading →
New research published by UNU-WIDER on 8 April warns that the economic fallout from the global pandemic could increase global poverty by as much as half a billion people, or 8% of the total human population. This would be the first time that poverty has … Continue reading →
By Elliot Parker Like the Climate Crisis, Covid-19 has shown that state cooperation instead of state separation is necessary to fight and defeat another battle that is plaguing humanity. Covid-19 is in its relative infancy. It can be said that … Continue reading →