10 lessons from the COVID-19 frontline for a more gender-equal world
• Women and girls must be front and centre of coronavirus response and recovery.
• Women and girls must be front and centre of coronavirus response and recovery.
“If you don’t have access to clean water, how can you be expected to wash your hands every hour?”
• Most people concede that public health currently trumps individual rights when it comes to the use of coronavirus data.
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• Vaccine development plays other roles than curing the disease at hand.
• The global economy that emerges from COVID-19 must be better-equipped to deal with such crises.
• Jennifer Morgan, International Executive Director of Greenpeace, believes the response to COVID-19 will dictate action on climate change.
• Faith leaders from Christianity, Judaism and Islam support government efforts to control the coronavirus.
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We all know that this pandemic is unprecedented in scale and need. Almost every household, community, organization, sector and nation is reeling from its impacts on health, the economy an...
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Tackling the emergence of a new global pandemic is a complex task. But collective intelligence is now being used around the world by communities and governments to respond.