© UNICEF/Parvez Ahmad Twelve-year-old boy in Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh, sorts through hazardous plastic waste without any protection, working to support his family amidst the lockdown. Without urgent action, COVID-19 will continue to unravel decades of progress across South Asia, destroying the “hopes and futures of an entire generation”, warns a new report released on Tuesday by […]
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The digital divide: lessons COVID-19 taught us about the digital exclusion of students from low socio-economic backgrounds
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, educators across the globe have been required to establish learning from home for school students, resulting in the rapid roll out of remote online learning. In light of this phenomenon, this article discusses the impact of remote online learning on Australia’s advancement of UN Sustainable Development Goal 4 […]
Trade in many developing countries projected to ‘nosedive’, warns UNCTAD
UN News/Daniel DickinsonMany container ports, like this one in New York City, have seen a decline in activity as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Trade in many developing countries is expected to take a “nosedive” in the second quarter of 2020, owing to the unprecedented effects of the coronavirus pandemic, UN economists said on […]
Security Council: Time is on no-one’s side in Syria, warns top UN envoy
WFP/Khudr AlissaThe World Food Program is distributing food to vulnerable families in Aleppo, Syria, and are ensuring they are aware of COVID-19 and how they can stay safe. With war-weary Syria in economic freefall and protesters back on the streets, all sides – domestic and international – must find a way forward that helps its […]
International Criminal Court oversight chief ‘deeply regrets’ US decision to target officials investigating Afghanistan war crimes
UN Photo/Rick BajornasPermanent headquarters of the International Criminal Court at The Hague. (file) Responding to the decision of the United States Government to sanction International Criminal Court (ICC) officials and their family members, O-Gon Kwon, President of the Assembly of States Parties, the body that oversees the ICC, denounced the measures which, he said, undermine the […]
Children caught in conflict facing ‘brutality and fear while the world watches’
© UNICEF/Helene Sandbu RyengOn 26 May 2020 in Juba, South Sudan, children released from armed forces are seated on the ground while negotiations for their reintegration take place. Boys and girls used and abused in armed conflict have had their childhoods replaced by “pain, brutality and fear while the world watches”, the UN Special Representative of the […]