As countries begin easing COVID-19 pandemic lockdown measures, calls to not “go back to normal” are getting louder. The pandemic has exposed systemic flaws and highlighted the drastic ine...
• 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.
Did you know that some of your favorite foods may be produced with child labour? Take chocolate, for instance: 60% of its main ingredient, cocoa, is grown in the Ivory Coast and Ghana, wh...
One of the great disasters hiding inside the coronavirus catastrophe is the imminent loss of local news. Financial pressure on local news has increased, and very few organizations have th...
• 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.
As COVID-19 cases begin to rise among the world’s most vulnerable populations – the poor and displaced, people living in crowded refugee camps – time is running out to prevent the pandemi...
The Democratic Republic of Congo will soon pass a milestone marking its success in the fight against Ebola. As Africa braces for COVID-19, one lesson from the DRC is that the best hope fo...
Dhaka’s streets are eerily empty. When 10 million rickshaw drivers, day labourers, factory workers, maids and others raced to get home before the start of the shutdown - announced by the ...
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...
Forty million people. That many people could die worldwide from coronavirus unless we see urgent intervention, according to Imperial College London. We could see the world’s biggest human...
