From the ILO: Young workers will be hit hard by COVID-19’s economic fallout

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The International Labor Organization highlights five reasons why young workers are going to be more affected by the pandemic: 1) Lack of experience in relation to senior/more experienced employees, 2) Young people work in the informal economy, they can't just take some days off, 3) Many youth are in part time, less protected and paid jobs, 4) Young people work in industries affected 5)Automation

PRESS RELEASE: Protecting the most vulnerable children from the impact of coronavirus: An agenda for action

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"Without urgent action, this health crisis risks becoming a child-rights crisis." " Global coordination is urgently needed to prevent this health crisis from becoming a child-rights crisis."

Speech by President von der Leyen at the European Parliament Plenary on the EU coordinated action to combat the coronavirus pandemic and its consequences

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"The European budget will be the mothership of our recovery.And for that reason, the next seven year budget must be different to what we had imagined, just as Spinelli said. We will use the power of the whole European budget to leverage the huge amount of investment we need to rebuild the Single Market after Corona." Focus also on linking the recovery with the European Green Deal

From the World Food Program: COVID-19 - Potential Impact on the World's Poorest People

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"COVID-19 in rich and poor countries are two starkly diff erent realities but connected by the thread of globalization and humanity. The only real hope for many is availability of aff ordable testing and treatment"

PRESS RELEASE: Call to Action: Now and the Future, COVID-19 and Gender Equality, Global Peace and Security

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The ‘Call to Action: Now and the Future, COVID-19 and Gender Equality, Global Peace and Security’ paper addresses the deeply gendered impact of COVID-19.

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

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Newly released technical note aims to help governments, ICT companies, educators and parents protect children in lockdown

A Letter to my sister Deanne Joi Rosenkrantz

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This is a letter to my sister who left this earth in 1984 when she was 25.

PRESS RELEASE: UNITED WITH AFRICA: WORLD LEADERS ADDRESS COVID EPIDEMIC IN AFRICA (

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World leaders call for an urgent debt moratorium and unprecedented health and economic aid packages.

Press Release: European roadmap shows path towards common lifting of containment measures

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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

PRESS RELEASE: Sanofi and GSK join forces to fight COVID-19 BY EMMA WALMSLEY, CEO, GSK

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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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