What is it?

S4G, the un-mediated, not moderated social platform

Have you ever thought you have something to “express” with a social dimension but never had the opportunity to do it?

Then S4G is what you are looking for:

  • Open, unrestricted and easy to use
  • Three mediums to choose from: TEXT, VIDEO, PHOTO
  • A way to express your ideas, reflections and expertise, on social issues and broader development and society at large
  • You do not need to be an expert but just passionate about what you share

Latest Sharings

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.

PRESS RELEASE: African Union reaffirms its unwavering support to WHO

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Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa and Chairperson of the African Union, reaffirms how Africa believes in the work and in the mandate of the WHO.

PRESS RELEASE : In times of crisis, solidarity between workers and employers is paramount( ILO)

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The study, Managing Conflicts and Disasters: Exploring Collaboration between Employers’ and Workers’ Organizations , highlights specific cases where joint (and sometimes spontaneous) actions taken by social partners helped to mitigate some of the worst consequences of natural and human-made disasters

PRESS RELEASE: Half a billion people could be pushed into poverty by coronavirus (oxfam)

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The economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic could push half a billion more people into poverty unless urgent action is taken to bail out developing countries, said Oxfam today.

Resilient Health Systems: What we are learning from the COVID-19 crisis by Francesca Colombo,

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This op-ed piece written by Francesca Colombo, Head, Health Division, Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD highlights: 1) need to strengthen disease surveillance mechanisms and health information infrastructures, 2) importance of having adaptable health systems, 3) strengthened co-ordination across countries

Q&A: Global EU response to the coronavirus pandemic

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PRESS RELEASE: clarification on the EU global response to covid 19

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: COVID-19’s Devastating Impact on Children

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PRESS RELEASE: The COVID-19 crisis has a potentially far-reaching, long-term negative impact on children around the world, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.

IN THE PROCESS OF SOUTH ASIAN INTEGRATION, INDIA SHOULD LEARN TO LEAD FROM THE BACK

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The symbolic coordination of the SAARC nations in the fight against corona virus should bring India to rethink her leadership strategy to bring forward the process of regional integration.

Combatting Crisis with Meaningful Communication

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This article highlights the importance of establishing meaningful communication between State and citizens to fight emergencies. Meaningful communication is essential to enhance national solidarity.

Coronavirus: EU global response to fight the pandemic

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PRESS RELEASE: THE European Union is going to provide €15.6 billion to fight covid 19 in the most vulnerable countries around the world, out of which , €3.25 billion will be channeled to Africa

Skoll Foundation Announces 2020 Awards for Social Entrepreneurship

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The five winners range from leveraging mobile technology to improve women's health to a volunteering program to break the cycle of violence in central America to research to improve the environmental performance and energy efficiency of transports to a new effective way to support journalists in the fight against crime to new tools to promote civic engagement through advanced technologies.

Nepalese Beyond Boundaries...

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The article highlights the impact of COVID-19 on Nepalese migrant worker working in GCC and Malaysia. Similarly it highlights the steps to be taken from the government to protect the rights of Nepalese migrant workers along with restricting the transmission of COVID-19 in nepal. At lastly the article also tries to aware government about the economic crisis that is going to occur in recent future

Uniting Business to respond to COVID-19 outbreak: A Special Appeal from the United Nations Global Compact

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PRESS RELEASE: UN GLOBAL COMPACT, the special program focused on positive contributions of the private sector is promoting its TEN PRINCIPLES for companies to contribute in the fight against COVID 19.

WHO and UNICEF to partner on pandemic response through COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund

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PRESS RELEASE: The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF today announced an agreement to work together on COVID-19 response, through the historic COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund powered by the United Nations Foundation and Swiss Philanthropy Foundation.

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