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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.
Citizen Action is Central to the Global Response to COVID-19
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK and MANILA, Apr 22 (IPS) - The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has created an unprecedented human and economic crisis. Governments are taking strong actions, enforcing quarantines to reduce contagion, testing populations, building emergency intensive care units. Governments have also launched large fiscal stimulus plans to protect jobs and the economy, as well as temporary social protection programs such as income/food support, subsidies to utilities and care services.
What Does Covid-19 Crisis Mean for Rural Development?
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Apr 22 (IPS) - The implications and consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic are playing out before us. Much of the news coverage of the to date in both the Global North and the Global South has understandably focused on the horrifying impact of the disease on urban communities, where it is clearly hitting people, and economies, hardest.
Q&A: Continued Social Distancing and Hundreds of Millions More in Poverty - A New Normal for the World?
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 22 (IPS) - With much of the global economy stalled amid an unprecedented lockdown of nations grappling to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, the author of a new United Nations report on the disease's impact on poverty told IPS that hundreds of millions more could pushed into poverty and we can expect to see social unrest.
A Global Crisis Like No Other Needs a Global Response Like No Other
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Apr 22 (IPS) - I have been saying for a while that this is a ‘crisis like no other.' It is:
- More complex, with interlinked shocks to our health and our economies that have brought our way of life to an-almost complete stop;
- More uncertain, as we are learning only gradually how to treat the novel virus, make containment most effective, and restart our economies; and
- Truly global. Pandemics don't respect borders, neither do the economic shocks they cause.
Coronavirus, New Threat for Mexican Migrant Workers in the U.S.
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Apr 21 (IPS) - As the high season for agricultural labour in the United States approaches, tens of thousands of migrant workers from Mexico are getting ready to head to the fields in their northern neighbour to carry out the work that ensures that food makes it to people's tables.
Coronavirus: Six Key Factors Poor Countries Should Focus on
- Inter Press Service
IBADAN, NIGERIA, Apr 21 (IPS) - Since the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic late last year in Wuhan, China, the global community has witnessed unprecedented policy responses to curtail, contain and control the disease. Many have proven to be successful. But others required critical context consideration.
The Theology of Pandemics
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Apr 21 (IPS) - Ingmar Bergman's 1957 film The Seventh Seal is set in medieval Sweden, as the bubonic plague ravages the countryside. In one famous scene, a procession of zombie-like flagellants enters a village and interrupts a comic stage-show.
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