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2020-03-24 Uma Mensagem de Solidariedade, Compromisso e Esperança da GHR: Propagação do COVID-19
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2020-03 Coronavirus COVID-19: the HR Council suspends its 43rd session.
2020-03 UN HR Special Procedures: 19 Experts appointed during 43rd session by HR Council
2020-03-18 ILO – ‘Swift policy action, strong leadership save jobs, ‘avert the worst’ amid covid-19 pandemic’
2020-03-19 Experts on ‘Covid-19: governments must promote and protect access to and free flow of information’
2020-03-16 UN HR SP Covid-19: States should not abuse emergency measures to suppress HR
2020-03-24 Chairpersons UN HR Treaty bodies call for HR approach in fighting Covid-19
2020-03-06 OHCHR HC Bachelet ‘Covid-19: countries, businesses must safeguard human rights as virus spreads’
2020-03-24 Message de Solidarité, d’Engagement et d’Espoir de GDH – Pandémie du COVID-19

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India: Migrant workers' plight prompts UN call for ‘domestic solidarity’ in coronavirus battle 04/02/2020
COVID-19 should not herald rollback in rights for people with autism: UN chief 04/02/2020
Economic sanctions should be lifted to prevent hunger crises in countries hit by COVID-19 – UN rights expert 03/31/2020
Release inmates in Yemen to avert nationwide coronavirus outbreak, experts urge 03/30/2020
COVID-19 stoking xenophobia, hate and exclusion, minority rights expert warns 03/30/2020

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India: Migrant workers' plight prompts UN call for ‘domestic solidarity’ in coronavirus battle 04/02/2020
Pervasive challenges remain for hundreds-of-thousands of migrant workers in India whose lives were upended by the sudden lockdown across the country, in response to the threat of the coronavirus pandemic, said the UN human rights office, OHCHR, on Thursday.
COVID-19 should not herald rollback in rights for people with autism: UN chief 04/02/2020
The rights of persons with autism must be taken into account in efforts to address the COVID-19 coronavirus: “a public health crisis unlike any other in our lifetimes”, the UN Secretary-General said on Thursday.
Economic sanctions should be lifted to prevent hunger crises in countries hit by COVID-19 – UN rights expert 03/31/2020
As the world exhibits new bonds of solidarity in response to the coronavirus pandemic, it is a matter of “humanitarian and practical urgency to lift unilateral economic sanctions immediately,” to prevent hunger crises in pandemic-hit countries, a UN human rights expert, said on Tuesday.
Release inmates in Yemen to avert nationwide coronavirus outbreak, experts urge 03/30/2020
An international panel of human rights experts called today for the immediate release of political prisoners and detainees in war-ravaged Yemen to help avert a nationwide outbreak of COVID-19.

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'Everyone at risk’ as coronavirus cases tick up among migrants and refugees sheltering in Greece 04/02/2020
With 23 migrants at an open accommodation site in central Greece testing positive for COVID-19, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) sounded the alarm on Thursday over conditions in crowded reception centres on five Greek islands where the virus risks taking hold.
COVID-19 crisis ‘unlike any we have dealt with’, as new tragedy looms for Syria 04/02/2020
The risk of the COVID-19 pandemic having a devastating impact on war-torn Syria is intensifying, where six million are displaced, living in conditions that make them particularly vulnerable to the deadly virus, the Senior Humanitarian Advisor to the UN Special Envoy to Syria warned on Thursday.
India: Migrant workers' plight prompts UN call for ‘domestic solidarity’ in coronavirus battle 04/02/2020
Pervasive challenges remain for hundreds-of-thousands of migrant workers in India whose lives were upended by the sudden lockdown across the country, in response to the threat of the coronavirus pandemic, said the UN human rights office, OHCHR, on Thursday.
Burkina Faso crisis and COVID-19 concerns highlight pressure on Sahel food security 04/02/2020
Food insecurity levels in the Sahel region are “spiralling out of control”, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Thursday, as it expressed concerns about the potential impact on humanitarian supply chains because of restrictions imposed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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COVID-19 crisis ‘unlike any we have dealt with’, as new tragedy looms for Syria 04/02/2020
The risk of the COVID-19 pandemic having a devastating impact on war-torn Syria is intensifying, where six million are displaced, living in conditions that make them particularly vulnerable to the deadly virus, the Senior Humanitarian Advisor to the UN Special Envoy to Syria warned on Thursday.
‘Working round the clock’ to aid Venezuelan refugees and migrants during COVID-19 pandemic: UN agencies 04/01/2020
Two United Nations agencies came together Tuesday to urge the international community not to overlook the on-going plight of millions of refugees and migrants from Venezuela, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread around the world.
WHO concerned over rapid escalation in COVID-19 spread as caseload approaches one million 04/01/2020
Deaths from COVID-19 have more than doubled in the past week and will soon reach 50,000 worldwide, while the global caseload is heading towards one million, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) told journalists on Wednesday.
Nigeria: UN and partners acting to avert coronavirus spread in displacement camps 04/01/2020
The UN system in Nigeria and its partners are working to reduce the spread of the new coronavirus disease in some of the most vulnerable areas in the country: communities and camps housing millions of internally displaced people (IDPs) uprooted by the Boko Haram insurgency in the northeast.

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