New Red Cross Red Crescent analysis shows deep inequalities in COVID-19 response across Middle East and North Africa
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Beirut, 8 April 2021 (IFRC) – The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is seeking “urgent and sizeable investment” to ensure the region’s pandemic response leaves no one behind.
While no one has been spared from the effects of COVID-19, the consequences of this pandemic have not been equally felt. This crisis has been defined by profound and persistent inequities both in terms of who is most at risk, and how the world has responded.
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MINSK. KAZINFORM – A spring session of the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth of Independent States will take place on 15-16 April, the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly press service told BelTA.
A videoconference session of the Council of the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly will take place in Tauride Palace, St Petersburg on 15 April. Heads of the parliamentary delegations to the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly, experts, and representatives of the secretariat of the Council of the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly will take part in it. The session will be chaired by Chairwoman of the Council of the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly, Chairwoman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of Russia Valentina Matviyenko.
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New Red Cross Red Crescent analysis shows deep inequalities in COVID-19 response across Middle East and North Africa
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Beirut, 8 April 2021 (IFRC) – The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is seeking
“urgent and sizeable investment” to ensure the region’s pandemic response leaves no one behind.
While no one has been spared from the effects of COVID-19, the consequences of this pandemic have not been equally felt. This crisis has been defined by profound and persistent inequities both in terms of who is most at risk, and how the world has responded.
COVID-19 and the Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) and Conditional Cash Transfers for Education (CCTE) programmes
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Simon Little, Calum McLean, Elayn Sammon and input from experts on Social Protection Approaches to COVID-19: Expert Advice (SPACE)
This document was drafted in September 2020 and the data referenced was accurate at the time of writing.
INTRODUCTION
FCDO Turkey commissioned SPACE to assess the impact of COVID-19 on the principal cash vehicles active in Turkey: Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) and Conditional Cash Transfers for Education (CCTE) programmes, both funded by the EU through the EUR 6 billion Facility for Refugees in Turkey (FRiT) programme and managed by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and UNICEF respectively.
InfoMigrants By Emma Wallis Published on : 2021/04/07
Human Rights Watch has accused the Lebanese government of leaving refugees and migrants behind in its COVID-19 vaccination strategy. The group says the vaccination program has been tainted by political interference and a lack of information.
Migrants and refugees risk being left behind in Lebanon’s COVID-19 vaccination strategy. That’s according to a new report released by the humanitarian organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) on April 6. A refugee and migrants rights researcher at the organization, Nadia Hardman, said that potentially a third of the population was at risk. With one in three people in Lebanon a refugee or migrant, a third of the population risks being left behind in the vaccination plan, explained Hardman. The government needs to invest in targeted outreach to build trust with long-marginalized communities or the COVID-19 vaccination eff