WHO warns of ‘two-track pandemic’ as cases decline but vaccine inequity persists
Even though COVID-19 cases and deaths have declined in recent weeks, the world is facing a “two-track pandemic”, the UN’s top health official said...
Increases in extreme poverty neglected in Covid policy debate
The poverty consequences of the pandemic should be given as much importance by policy-makers as its mortality consequences, according to new research .
Researchers examined...
Manchester Charity Launches Emergency Response for Palestine
The violent scenes at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem have escalated into yet another deadly conflict which has seen 35 Palestinians tragically lose their lives,...
155 million faced acute food insecurity in 2020, conflict the key driver
At least 155 million people faced crisis levels of food insecurity in 2020 because of conflict, extreme weather events and economic shocks linked in...
Gordon Brown urges G7 countries to fund global COVID vaccination push
Former United Kingdom Prime Minister Gordon Brown called on Monday for the world’s richest nations to underwrite COVID-19 vaccination in poorer countries, highlighting the...
Manchester Charity launches Emergency Response to Indian crisis
Manchester charity Human Appeal has launched an initial emergency response to the soaring death rates and severe oxygen shortages in India, as the country...
Hundreds of millions of women living lives ‘governed by others’, UN report shows
Almost half of women in some 57 countries do not have the power to make choices over their healthcare, contraception, or sex lives, a...
World Health Authority calls for end to wet markets
The World Health Organization (WHO) and partners have called for countries to suspend sales of live wild mammals in traditional food markets, also known...
Humanitarian catastrophe in northern Mozambique ‘beyond epic proportions’
The UN and partners are “following with deep concern” new reports of violations against civilians in northern Mozambique, the UN Spokesperson said on Thursday.
Citing...
Amnesty report 2020: Global inequality ‘brutally exposed’ by pandemic
The global pandemic has both exposed and deepened global inequality and has had the worst impact on the most vulnerable people in the world,...