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    Education disruption poses global challenge

    22 Jul 2020

    Following the release of a UN study that shows at least 40 million children have missed out on early childhood education due to measures to combat COVID-19, the head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Henrietta Fore, has warned that the pandemic is making a global childcare crisis even worse, and she is absolutely correct.

    COVID-19: Need to address food insecurity

    18 Jul 2020

    The global coronavirus infections passing 14 million on Friday, as per a Reuters tally, is a grim milestone that makes it clear the war against the deadly pandemic is far from over.

    Global unity needed to address trade plunge

    08 Apr 2020

    With more than half of humanity asked to stay at home and economic activity grinding to a virtual standstill in many places, the havoc wreaked by COVID-19 coronavirus continues unabated.

    Swift measures needed to address global job crisis

    29 Apr 2020

    The International Labour Organization’s (ILO) prediction that some 1.6 billion people employed in the informal economy — or nearly half the global workforce — could see their livelihoods destroyed due to the continued decline in working hours brought on by lockdowns to curb the spread of COVID-19 highlights the grim scenario prevailing across the globe on the employment front.

    Countries should shore up global food security

    10 Jun 2020

    The warning by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres that the COVID-19 pandemic could push nearly 50 million more people into extreme poverty deserves serious attention and countries should act immediately to shore up global food security.

    Global economic recovery calls for solidarity

    10 Jun 2020

    The deadly COVID-19 pandemic has shaken up the world on both the health and economic fronts.

    A testing time for humanity

    26 Mar 2020

    With India’s 1.3 billion people under lockdown, a third of the planet — some 2.9 billion people according to an AFP tally — is now under orders to stay home, and this certainly is one of the most challenging periods for humanity.

    COVID-19: Global solidarity need of the hour

    27 Mar 2020

    At a time when the whole world is going through unprecedented conditions due to the spread of the coronavirus and its transformation into a global pandemic,

    Not exactly true

    28 Mar 2020

    Most of the coronavirus articles talk about the planet being the beneficiary of all the lockdowns and almost zero economic activity. However, that’s not entirely correct.

    Keep fear at bay

    19 Mar 2020

    The fast spreading novel coronavirus is proving to be a big health challenge besides wreaking havoc on social and economic activities globally. Thankfully governments all over are tackling it head-on, but the task is humongous and unless all of us get pro-active, the coming days will only get worse for all of us (“The coronavirus lockdown in Spain is an eerie experience, but it also has its heartwarming moments,” Mar.17, Gulf Today).

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