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The COVID-19 crisis is powerfully demonstrating the ways in which the human rights of all people are interdependent and interrelated and that ensuring a safe and enabling environment for civil society ...
Gen. Joseph Lengyel received both a positive and negative COVID-19 test result. The novel coronavirus pandemic has now killed more than 281,000 people worldwide. More than 4 million people across ...
The United Nations launched an appeal Tuesday asking for $35 billion to support its humanitarian work, warning that decades of progress is at risk of being undone as the Covid-19 pandemic drives ...
The United Nations on Tuesday called for the launch of a “large-scale, coordinated and comprehensive multilateral response” to the coronavirus pandemic, an ambitious proposal that would amount ...
The United Nations staff in Lebanon’s 26 entities have worked tirelessly alongside Lebanese authorities to deliver a coordinated and coherent response whose goal is ‘leave no one behind.’ ...
Joint Chiefs of Staff Vice Chair Gen. John Hyten spoke about defense technology with the newly founded Emerging Technologies Institute. Other topics included the COVID-19 pandemic, China… ...
The Joint Chiefs of Staff, a body that consists of the top commanders from each of the armed services, held meetings that included Coast Guard Adm. Charles Ray, the vice commandant, who then ...
It is now three years since United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for an “immediate global ceasefire” in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.On March 23, 2020, Guterres called ...
When COVID-19 arrived in the United States five years ago, the emergence of the new virus was no surprise for pandemic expert Laurie Garrett.
United Nations photo: ... just as Covid-19 looms. Staff wear face masks and gloves while working at cash distribution ... returns to the stage after a long absence during the COVID-19 pandemic.
As COVID-19 continues to spread globally, people living in crisis will be hit hardest. The International Rescue Committee is scaling up our response to the coronavirus pandemic, providing lifesaving ...
Coronavirus Pandemic ‘Is a Call to Action,’ U.N. Secretary General Says By Reuters • April 1, 2020 The United Nations issued a report calling the coronavirus the most challenging issue the ...