PRESS RELEASE: Children at increased risk of harm online during global COVID-19 pandemic ( UNICEF)

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 16Apr
Newly released technical note aims to help governments, ICT companies, educators and parents protect children in lockdown
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A Letter to my sister Deanne Joi Rosenkrantz

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Submitted by Michael Rosenkrantz 16Apr
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SOCIETY AT LARGE
This is a letter to my sister who left this earth in 1984 when she was 25.
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PRESS RELEASE: UNITED WITH AFRICA: WORLD LEADERS ADDRESS COVID EPIDEMIC IN AFRICA (

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 15Apr
World leaders call for an urgent debt moratorium and unprecedented health and economic aid packages.
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Press Release: European roadmap shows path towards common lifting of containment measures

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 15Apr
The European Commission, the executive branch of the EU is coming up with a road map, a set of criteria that should help the member states to decide when to ease the lock down. Here the key criteria to decide: 1) spread of the disease has significantly decreased and stabilised for a sustained period, 2) Sufficient health system capacity, 3) Appropriate monitoring capacity
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PRESS RELEASE: Sanofi and GSK join forces to fight COVID-19 BY EMMA WALMSLEY, CEO, GSK

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 15Apr
Sanofi and GSK announced on 14 April 2020 that they will work together on the development of a new, adjuvanted vaccine for COVID-19.Once a vaccine will be developed, the two companies, two of the biggest pharma companies in the world, will be able to produce hundred of billions of vaccine and they are committed not to profit from this initiative.
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PRESS RELEASE: THE UN WORLD TOURISM ORGANIZATION HIGHLIGHTS THE ROLE OF TOURISM IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 15Apr
The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has released a set of recommendations calling for urgent and strong support to help the global tourism sector not only recover from the unprecedented challenge of COVID-19 but to ‘grow back better’.
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PRESS RELEASE: £100 million response announced to help social sector organisations through the coronavirus crisis in UK

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 15Apr
New lending facilities will provide much-needed finance to charities and social enterprises, and small businesses in disadvantaged parts of the UK
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PRESS RELEASE: The First 100 Days of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Asia and the Pacific: A Gender Lens

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 15Apr
This report presents a snapshot of the gender dimensions of the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic and captures promising practices for integrating gender in preparedness and response planning while proposing potential and entry points to mitigate the socio-economic impacts for women and girls in the region.
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Peace and the pandemic: the impact of COVID-19 on conflict in Asia ( BY Adam Burke, DEVPOLICY BLOG)

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 15Apr
According to Adam Burke, The Asia Foundation’s director of Conflict and Fragility, " makes existing conflicts in Asia less predictable". The Author analyzed some trends in the region, showing how conflicts can get exacerbated by covid. The Author also highlights how "Coordination and collaboration, two essential elements in addressing a pandemic, are especially hard to achieve in conflict zone".
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From the IMF: The Great Lockdown: Worst Economic Downturn Since the Great Depression ( BY Gita Gopinath)

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 15Apr
"The world has changed dramatically in the three months since our last update of the World Economic Outlook in January. A rare disaster, a coronavirus pandemic, has resulted in a tragically large number of human lives being lost. As countries implement necessary quarantines and social distancing practices to contain the pandemic, the world has been put in a Great Lockdown. "
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