Has India's 'airpocalypse' put the poor more at risk from coronavirus?From street sweepers to rural housewives, poor Indians who breathe some of the world's dirtiest air are at greater risk of dying from coronavirus than wealthier people, health experts say |
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Global creditors agree on debt relief for poor countries hit by pandemicMore than 70 countries will be eligible to have debt payments worth a combined $20 billion suspended by official and private creditors |
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Poland debates abortion rights curbs, coronavirus limits protestsThe draft legislation would ban abortion if prenatal tests show serious, irreversible damage to the foetus |
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How smartphone apps can help 'contact trace' the new coronavirusCompanies and governments around the world are racing to create apps to help track the spread of the coronavirus |
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Last orders? How Britain's community pubs are fighting to survive the coronavirus crisisWith makeshift shops and takeaways, community-owned pubs find new ways to serve locals during COVID-19 |
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Volunteers turn spare AIDS Memorial Quilt fabric into coronavirus masksThe United States has the world's highest number of COVID-19 deaths and masks are in short supply |
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'Who is going to stand up for us?' A trans sex worker in Uganda on life under lockdown'I don't know what I am going to eat tomorrow, and I don't know if I'm going to survive the next day.' |
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Latest on coronavirus surveillance: How governments are monitoring citizensAuthorities around the world are using facial recognition, apps and big data to track the spread of COVID-19 and monitor people under quarantine |
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Bangladesh unions urge government to act as garment workers lose jobsThe coronavirus crisis has cost at least 10,000 garment worker jobs, despite a government request to not sack workers |
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Medecins Sans Frontieres plans first Canada project as COVID-19 threatens homelessThe aid agency rarely works in developed countries with strong health systems but says coronavirus 'is changing the playing field' |
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So far, U.S. courts rule for abortion rights during coronavirus pandemicSeveral conservative states in the U.S. that have tried to put limits on abortion during the coronavirus outbreak |
OPINION: COVID-19, air pollution and cooking: a deadly connectionAlmost 3 billion people still rely on open fires or inefficient stoves to cook, filling their homes with harmful smoke and increasing their vulnerability to respiratory infections |
OPINION: Male and LGBT+ survivors of conflict-related sexual violence - a need for urgent research, policy and actionThere is a critical need for research into how to help male and LGBT+ survivors of conflict-related sexual violence |
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