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Last week, the world celebrated the International Day of the Girl Child. Progress for adolescent girls has not kept pace with the realities they face today, and COVID-19 has reinforced many of these gaps. Data shows women and girls are especially vulnerable in the face of COVID-19. UN teams across the globe recognize the urgency to protect and support women and girls, especially right now, and are taking every measure to do so.

As part of its work towards ending child marriage and gender-based violence in Niger, the Spotlight Initiative partners with young women activists in Niger to celebrate the International Day of the Girl Child.

To track the UN response efforts, the UN development system established centralized data collecting and reporting systems: the new COVID-19 data portal and UN INFO. These systems allow teams to collect, analyze and report on key indicators of their work related to the SDGs and COVID-19 response, including the number of people served. 

The 75th UN General Assembly (UNGA) session, begins on 15 September and this year, due to the ongoing global pandemic, it will be unlike any other in the organization’s three quarters of a century of existence.

The ‘Life Helmets’ face shields, better known as Life Shields, are a new generation of personal protective equipment (PPE) for merchants, who work in Peru’s traditional markets, to safely reactivate the economies without further stigma. 

A new joint programme has been established in Costa Rica to provide tools to social co-managers for basic protection for families and women's economic autonomy in three cantons.

In Sierra Leone, as the Government made the wearing of face masks mandatory in public areas in May 2020, the UN team worked with local authorities and

Majaha Mbuyisa, despite obstacles and COVID-19 is working to empower young Emaswati living with HIV through his cleaning business and peer-to-peer facilitation.