PRESS RELEASE: £100 million response announced to help social sector organisations through the coronavirus crisis in UK

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New lending facilities will provide much-needed finance to charities and social enterprises, and small businesses in disadvantaged parts of the UK

PRESS RELEASE: The First 100 Days of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Asia and the Pacific: A Gender Lens

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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.

Peace and the pandemic: the impact of COVID-19 on conflict in Asia ( BY Adam Burke, DEVPOLICY BLOG)

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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".

From the IMF: The Great Lockdown: Worst Economic Downturn Since the Great Depression ( BY Gita Gopinath)

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"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. "

IDA's letter to World Health Organisation in response to the #COVID19 pandemic

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Press Release: The International Disability Alliance is pushing hard to have persons with disabilities at the center of the pandemic response not just in terms of support needed but also as engaged and active in the fight against.

FROM THE UNITED NATIONS: The Impact of COVID-19 on Women

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" The pandemic is deepening pre-existing inequalities, exposing vulnerabilities in social, political and economic systems which are in turn amplifying the impacts of the pandemic". "Limited gains made in the past decades’ toward gender equality ‘are at risk of being rolled back’. The report suggests priorities on how to reverse this.

Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) DEMOCRACY REPORT 2020 is out

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Press Release: the 2020 V-Dem Institute report is highlighting how autocracies are growing BIG TIME in this new era but as the same time, resistance movements are scaling up as well. The V-Dem Institute is an independent research institute and the Headquarters of the project based at the Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

STATEMENT: Canada set up COVID-19 Disability Advisory Group BY The Honourable Carla Qualtrough, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion

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The Group will provide advice on the real-time lived experiences of persons with disabilities during this crisis; disability-specific issues, challenges and systemic gaps; and strategies, measures and steps to be taken. Areas of particular focus will be equality of access to health care and supports; access to information and communications, mental health and social isolation...

PRESS RELEASE FROM THE EUROGROUP: Report on the comprehensive economic policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic

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Yesterday night the finance ministers of the EU countries who have adopted the EURO found a compromise to relaunch the post covid 19 reconstruction. The so called eurobonds, a debt mutualization tool sought by Italy, Spain and France were not included but the final agreed text leaves space for further negotiations between the Heads of States in the days to come.

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