IOM/Mohammed In August-September 2017, widespread violence forced over 700,000 Rohingya to flee their homes in Myanmar for safety in Bangladesh. Dozens of Rohingya refugees are believed to have died in the Andaman sea after spending more than 200 days afloat, owing to a “collective unwillingness” of countries to take them in, the UN refugee agency […]
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Investments in public health, an investment in safer future, urges Tedros
ILO/Alin Sirisaksopit Nurses at a hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, exchange documents through acrylic shields that have been setup to ensure physical distancing. The world must be ready when the next pandemic comes, the head of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) has said, urging countries to invest more in public health as part of their […]
UN agency for Palestinian refugees launches $95 million appeal to keep COVID at bay
UNRWA/Louise Wateridge A health worker provides COVID-19 information to a patient visiting the Jerusalem Health Center. The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked a health and socio-economic emergency across the occupied Palestinian territory, the UN agency for the region warned on Friday, noting a swell of coronavirus cases in recent weeks. The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNWRA), said that it requires some $95 million to cover the emergency needs of 5.6 million […]
Beat back ‘catastrophic effects’ of COVID-19 on refugee education, urges UNHCR
© UNICEF/UNI340770 A nine-year-old studies at her shelter in a Rohingya refugee camp in southern Bangladesh. She is supported by her mother and teacher, as the education centre at the camp is closed due to COVID. While children in every country have struggled with the impact of COVID-19 on their education, refugee children have been […]
‘Emergency’ for global education, as fewer than half world’s students cannot return to school
© UNICEF/Frank Dejongh Children in Côte d’Ivoire wear face masks as they return to school after temporary closures due to COVID-19. Classes for more than 450 million students starting the new academic year are expected to be entirely remote – or for some, a mix of distance and in-person learning – the UN education and […]
Uncomfortable bedfellows: balancing health and economics in a global crisis
COVID-19 threatens the health and wellbeing of millions of people the world over, through malnutrition, preventable disease, delayed diagnoses and psychological hardship. All these threats co-exist with the threat of the virus itself, and are consequences of economic and social ‘lockdowns’ imposed by governments to curb the spread of COVID-19. Understanding the intimate link between […]