Month: April 2020

FAO, Iran cooperate to support capacity building

Maximo Torero, chief economist and assistant director-general for the Economic and Social Development Department at the Food and Agriculture Organization…

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COVID-19: New women-led UN initiative aims to save lives and protect livelihoods

Against the backdrop of the unprecedented global crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the deputy UN chief briefed journalists on Monday about a new women-led initiative that mobilizes support to save lives and protect livelihoods. Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed highlighted that collectively, we…

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Millions more children at risk with immunization services disrupted amid COVID-19 pandemic

Last year, over 13 million children received no vaccines at all, and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is calling on…

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‘Landmark collaboration’ to make COVID-19 testing and treatment available to all

World leaders, scientists, humanitarians, and private sector partners united on Friday in “a landmark collaboration” that will make new tools…

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Cash help crucial for informal workers, says UN labor chief, stressing primacy of multilateralism

Informal workers who live day to day urgently need cash support from their governments to survive the economic impact of…

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Human rights ‘uplift everyone’; must guide COVID-19 recovery response, says UN chief

The coronavirus pandemic is not only a critical public health danger, but it is also a human, economic and social…

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FAO scales up its technical assistance to Iran on addressing Desert Locust infestation

As desert locust infestations in East Africa and South-West Asia have intensified in recent months, the Food and Agriculture Organization…

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Startling disparities in digital learning emerge as COVID-19 spreads: UN education agency

With most of the world’s students now at home due to COVID-19, the pandemic is revealing startling divides in digitally-based distance learning,…

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UN issues appeal to bolster COVID-19 ‘logistics backbone’, warns global response could stutter to a halt

The heads of major UN humanitarian agencies and offices have launched an urgent appeal for $350 million to support global…

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UN agencies pledge scaled-up efforts to protect uprooted children as pandemic upends lives

Two UN agency chiefs are pledging to accelerate work to expand refugee children’s access to protection, education, clean water, and…

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