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Eric LeCompte Addresses Special UN Session on COVID Response Eric LeCompte Addresses Special UN Session on COVID Response April 24, 2021 United Nations ECOSOC Special Session on Small Island Developing States, Least Developed Countries and Landlocked Developing States:  Financing a resilient recovery from the cascading effects of COVID-19  23 April 2021 By Eric LeCompte, Executive Director, Jubilee USA Network (Remarks as prepared for delivery) Your Excellencies, it's good to be with you for this critical high-level event on COVID response for Small Island Developing States (SIDs), Landlock...

National Catholic Reporter Quotes Eric LeCompte on Climate Summit National Catholic Reporter Quotes Eric LeCompte on Climate Summit April 22, 2021 National Catholic Reporter quotes Eric LeCompte on the representation of developing countries at President Biden's Leaders Summit on Climate. Read an excerpt below, and click here for the full story. Pope Francis, in Earth Day messages, warns 'we are at the edge' on climate change By Brian Roewe In a statement, Jose Aguto, associate director of the Catholic Climate Covenant, said the summit, along with Biden's American Jobs Plan, were "positive s...

United Nations Convenes High-Level COVID Response Session for Vulnerable Countries United Nations Convenes High-Level COVID Response Session for Vulnerable Countries April 23, 2021 Washington DC – The United Nations convened on COVID response and development needs for vulnerable, small island and landlocked countries. The President of the Economic and Social Council, Pakistan Ambassador Munir Akram organized the high-level event to focus on countries struggling with specific disadvantages from the crisis. “Small islands, poor countries and landlocked nations faced considerable risks and v...

World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Pope Francis officially called for a new system of “global governance” and “universal vaccines” to cure the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) and other pressing “problems.” The letter, which only mentions “God” once, talks about the pressing need to “confront a series of grave and interrelated socio-economic, ecological, and political crises.” It mentions vaccines three different times while segueing in and out of topics related to “climate change.” “We are, in fact, in debt to nature itself, as well as the people and...

Money Matters Mon, 04, 21 Women now hold many of the jobs controlling the world’s largest economy - and they’re trying to fix it. Women now hold many of the jobs controlling the world’s largest economy - and they’re trying to fix it. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and trade czar Katherine Tai hold top jobs in US President Joe Biden’s administration and many of his economic advisers also are women, as are nearly 48 percent of his confirmed cabinet-level officials. This sea change may already be affecting economic policy - a new $2.3 trillion spend...