18/02/2021 – WHO seeks $1.96 billion for 2021 Strategic Plan for COVID-19 Response
17/02/2021 – Strengthen ‘One Health approach’ to prevent future pandemics – WHO chief–
17/02/2021 – COVID infections drop 16% worldwide in one week: WHO
16/02/2021 – Major airlines join forces with UNICEF to support ‘monumental’ COVID-19 vaccine roll-out plan
15/02/2021 – Downward COVID-19 trend shows ‘simple public health measures work’ – UN health chief
05/02/2021 – Unless COVID is suppressed everywhere, we’ll be ‘back at square one’
01/02/2021 – Consecutive drop in new COVID-19 cases ‘encouraging news’
25/01/2021 – New COVID-19 strains ‘poised to unleash’ more severe infections – Security Council hears
21/01/2021 – Guterres urges world to ‘work together in solidarity’ as US moves to re-join WHO
14/01/2021 – Health experts arrive in Wuhan to investigate COVID-19 origins
13/01/2021 – Step up surveillance of emerging coronavirus variants, WHO urges
03/12/2020 – Revealed: The cost of the pandemic on world’s poorest countries
30/11/2020 – COVID-19 worsening gender-based violence, trafficking risk, for women and girls
24/11/2020 – ‘Foundational and necessary change’ needed to heal post-COVID world
23/11/2020 – UNICEF planning ‘mammoth operation’ to deliver COVID-19 vaccines
19/11/2020 – Collective, conflict-sensitive responses vital to address COVID-19 pandemic and its fallout
19/11/2020 – Future of an entire generation at risk, as COVID-19 pandemic drags on
13/11/2020 – COVID-19: Consequences of ‘chronic under-investment in public health’ laid bare
13/11/2020 – Over US$ 2 billion raised to support equitable access to COVID vaccines with additional US$ 5 billion needed in 2021
10/11/2020 – Open science and the search for a COVID-19 vaccine
10/11/2020 – 73rd World Health Assembly set to strengthen preparedness for health emergencies– 09/11/2020 – Independent UN experts decry COVID vaccine hoarding: ‘No one is secure until all of us are’
04/11/2020 – Protecting citizens from COVID while granting refugee access, can be done: UNHCR
01/11/2020 – First Person: supporting migrants on the COVID-19 frontline in Myanmar
27/10/2020 – Equality, sustainability should guide COVID-19 recovery, say governments at regional forum
25/10/2020 – Science, unity and solidarity, key to defeating COVID: UN chief
23/10/2020 – ‘Very tough’ months ahead in COVID battle, WHO helping scale up dwindling oxygen supplies
20/10/2020 – Someone to talk to: in Kenya, a hotline for women—and men—in crisis
20/10/2020 – One in six children living in extreme poverty, with figure set to rise during pandemic
19/10/2020 – Focus on fundamentals as COVID-19 caseloads rise: WHO
13/10/2020- IMF: ‘Less severe’ but ‘still deep’ recession predicted
12/10/2020- Herd immunity, an ‘unethical’ COVID-19 strategy, Tedros warns policymakers
12/10/2020- Greater cooperation urged worldwide as criminals seek to profit from COVID-19
06/10/2020- Report outlines long road to post-COVID recovery for Latin America and Caribbean
– 28/09/2020 – WHO Director-General’s opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19
– 24/09/2020 – UNDP: Protecting the post-pandemic planet
– 23/09/2020 – UN and partners urge countries to act against COVID-19 “Infodemic”
– 08/09/2020 – COVID-19 could reverse decades of progress toward eliminating preventable child deaths, agencies warn
– 03/09/2020 – UNICEF to lead procurement and supply of COVID-19 vaccines in world’s largest and fastest ever operation of its kind
06/04/2020 – UN backs global action to end violence against women and girls amid COVID-19 crisis
06/04/2020 – Rights experts warn against discrimination in COVID-19 response
05/04/2020 – First Person: COVID-19 is not a silver lining for the climate, says UN Environment chief
05/04/2020- The CESCR released a statement on ESCR and COVID-19.
02/04/2020 – COVID-19 should not herald rollback in rights for people with autism: UN chief
31/03/2020 – Press release Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The IACHR urges States to guarantee the health and integrity of persons deprived of liberty and their families in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
30/03/2020 – The Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture. COVID-19: Measures needed to protect people deprived of liberty.
24/03/2020. The Chairpersons of the 10 UN Treaty Bodies urged global leaders to ensure that human rights are respected in government measures to tackle the public health threat posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. You can read it here.
21/03/2020. Adjustments to the work of human rights treaties individual complaints and urgent actions procedures in light of the COVID-19 – Information Note. The OHCHR has published an information note on adjustments to the work of human rights treaties individual complaints and urgent actions procedures in light of the COVID-19. Given the difficulties that States parties and authors of communications may face in meeting established deadlines, an automatic two-month extension of deadlines has been given to provide observations or comments for all registered cases. You can read the note here.
20/03/2020. UNICEF issued this press release urging governments and partners to take action, guided by the Technical Note on the Protection of Children during the Coronavirus Pandemic. The Note was produced under the leadership of UNICEF and through the contribution of several agencies under the aegis of the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action. More specific guidance is now being rapidly developed for children deprived of their liberty and children in alternative care who may be at higher risk of being affected by the COVID-19 outbreak due to the conditions in which they live. Please note that members of Child Rights Connect are closely involved in the development of this new guidance.
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