Among the uncertain flow of information on the internet, messaging has emerged as a key tool towards controlling the spread of the global health crisis. With the aim of fighting ‘infodemic’, UNESCO and Maraa’s project Strengthening...
The second wave of COVID-19 in India brought unprecedented losses. The poorest and the most marginalized, including women and girls, face more risks without the means to absorb the economic shocks and mitigate the health crisis. They are caring for their...
Mumbai was hit hard by the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2021, with the city recording a record high positivity rate of 20-24%, from an average of 8-9% in the preceding months.
Within a month, the positivity rate declined to 6% by 12 May 2021,...
As the world grapples unevenly with the effects of COVID-19, a parallel and equally horrific pandemic has threatened half the world’s population. In the early months of the pandemic, the United Nations projected that quarantines and lockdowns...
Every year on June 20, the world commemorates the courage of refugees and honour their resilience. World Refugee Day provides the annual reflection to the unprecedented scale of the global refugee crisis, with over 79.5 million people displaced worldwide,...
World Environment Day: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) estimates that due to the COVID crisis, the number of acute food-insecure people across the globe will double to 270 million in 2020-21, writes Bishow Parajuli New Delhi: World...
The United Nations Resident Coordinator in India, Renata Dessallien, has said that the second wave of Covid-19 infection in the country and the rapid spread of the virus took the country by surprise. Ms Dessallien has warned that taking...
Originally from Iran, Ghaffar Darabian was forced to flee the country and arrived in Pune, India in 1994. Since then, he has built a life in Pune, starting a family and putting his automobile engineering skills to work as a car mechanic. Since the outbreak...
Sugandha Sadappa with her daughterWhen Sugandha Sadappa met her three-year-old daughter after 21 days, she couldn’t hold back her tears.‘I had been on duty for seven straight days and then in quarantine for the next 14,’ Sugandha...
The second wave of COVID-19 in India has left parents looking for information on protecting their children and the steps to take if their child, or a family member, has symptoms of COVID-19, or tests positive.Experts from UNICEF, together...