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Video interview with UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
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Interview with UN Women Deputy Executive Director Åsa Regnér
** WHAT OUR LEADERS ARE SAYING
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** Women's role essential for a global ceasefire
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UN Women and the UN Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA) and of Peace Operations (DPO) make a joint call to ensure women are central to global ceasefire efforts. The global COVID-19 pandemic is a wake-up call: the world cannot face conflict and a pandemic at the same time.
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* Personal Protective Equipment standards must respond to women’s needs to ensure the safety of all frontline workers ([link removed]) Op-ed by UNECE Executive Secretary Olga Algayerova and UN Women Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia Alia El-Yassir.
* Women’s unpaid and underpaid work in the times of Covid-19 ([link removed])
Blog post by Lan Mercado, Regional Director for Asia, Oxfam; Mohammad Naciri, Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, UN Women; and Yamini Mishra, Director of Gender, Sexuality and Identity Programme, Amnesty International, International Secretariat.
** FROM THE FRONT LINE
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Livelihoods Women farmers in Dominica find new paths to market amidst shutdowns ([link removed])
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Mask production & income Rohingya women on the front line of response ([link removed])
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Mutual support In Georgia, women farmers show solidarity ([link removed])
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Supporting survivors of violence From where I stand: “Due to COVID-19 people were not going to the police” ([link removed])
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** ISSUE SPOTLIGHT
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Data dive Understanding gender and information inequalities through five women impacted by COVID-19 ([link removed])
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** UN Women’s response to COVID-19
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** CARE International and UN Women says pandemic poses extreme risk to women and girls in Latin America and the Caribbean
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[link removed] and girls across Latin America and the Caribbean are facing a terrifying mix of increased domestic violence and care burden, as well as a lower access to income and jobs, and potential social unrest as a result of the coronavirus outbreaks. Read more » ([link removed])
** Global statistics community reports on how COVID-19 is changing the world
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** SOCIAL MEDIA
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** The Shadow Pandemic
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** Education tools for children
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