Dialogue and exchanging of ideas avail an opportunity to deal with impunity that promotes violence against vulnerable groups in Malawi such as women and persons with disabilities.
The United Nations marked its 75th anniversary on 21 September 2020, at a time of many challenges, including a global health crisis that has shaken the world that we live in. During this time, the UN country teams (UNCTs), behind the scenes, have come together to tackle these uncertainties, digitally.
Just over a year before the novel coronavirus emerged, countries around the world came together to adopt the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) — a new framework for managing large movements of refugees more equitably among States.
For six years, people in Donbass, Ukraine have been living in fear. And now, fear of a virus that has wreaked havoc on the world and threatens to intensify all the challenges associated with a humanitarian crisis.
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.
Since the beginning of the year, Kenya has gone through a triple humanitarian crisis of COVID-19, Floods and Locust invasion that have threatened the economy.
Together with national authorities, the private sector and other partners, the UN teams serving 162 countries and territories continue to prioritize the fight against COVID-19. Today, we highlight some of their work as of 19 June 2020.
UN teams worldwide have come together with governments and partners to address COVID-19 and flatten the curve. We spotlight some of the coordinated response efforts as of 5 June 2020.
