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SDGs: the Challenge to Improve Lives After the COVID-19 Crisis
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 27 (IPS) - The SDGs, with their universal scope, interlinked nature and focus on leaving no one behind will be more essential than ever during and after this crisis.
Coronavirus Shows the Urgency of Ensuring that Research gets into the Public Domain
- Inter Press Service
Apr 26 (IPS) - Following the outbreak and declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic, there has been a flurry of scientific research and publications to address challenges posed by the virus. Publications have risen exponentially over the past few months as scientists work tirelessly to find out more about the pandemic, and the SARS-CoV-2 virus causing it.
Post-Pandemic Mental Health Epidemic
- Inter Press Service
Apr 26 (IPS) - The number of Nepalis suffering from mental health issues is increasing with the prolonged COVID-19 lockdown, and the lack of treatment and counselling means the country may be facing an epidemic of psychosocial disorders.
Why Covid-19 Choices Are Critical for Children
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Apr 24 (IPS) - Children may escape the worst symptoms of Covid-19 and suffer lower mortality rates, but for millions, the pandemic will have devastating effects.
COVID-19: India's Harvests also Locked Down
- Inter Press Service
NEW DEHLI, Apr 24 (IPS) - As a nationwide lockdown has confined a record 1.3 billion Indians to their homes since Mar. 24, one of the hardest hit communities has been that of Indian farmers.
Heartbreaking images of Indian farmers standing amidst swathes of rotting vegetables, fruits and grain have been flooding newspapers and TV screens lately. Crashing prices and transport bottlenecks due to the 40-day coronavirus lockdown in India, on till May 3, have driven some to set their unsold produce ablaze.
Why the Intentional Day of Multilateralism Must Start a New World Order
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Apr 24 (IPS) -
And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it
― Paulo Coelho, The AlchemistIn our current COVID 19 context of suffering and fear, that may sound like a strange and spooky quote. But let's be clear: what we have achieved so far in the present is not - and shouldn't be - indicative of what we can achieve in the future.
Children under Lockdown get a ‘Learning Passport’
- Inter Press Service
Apr 24 (IPS) - Soon schools in Timor-Leste, Ukraine, and Kosovo, where some 6.5 million children are currently at home, will hopefully start teaching their children once again -- albeit online.
Autonomous Resourcing: the Engine Room of Feminist Work Amid a Global Pandemic
- Inter Press Service
BRISBANE, Australia, Apr 23 (IPS) - Feminist responses to COVID-19 have been swift, insightful, and numerous.
There have been webinars (so.many.webinars), twitter threads, illustrations, press releases and policy recommendations, and online house parties. Analysis pieces cover everything from the gendered impacts of COVID-19 to how to work remotely to the role of neoliberal capitalism.
UN’s Development GoalsThreatened by a World Economy Facing Recession
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 23 (IPS) - The UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), described as an integral part of its highly-ambitious development agenda, may be in deep trouble.
Collaboration Can Help Eradicate COVID-19
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Apr 23 (IPS) - Since the founding of the United Nations in 1945, space for multilateral policy development and commitment has grown. Its growth in the global health field augurs well as we find ways to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus.
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