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New Red Cross Red Crescent analysis shows deep inequalities in COVID-19 response across Middle East and North Africa Format 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...

Select Page New Red Cross Red Crescent analysis shows deep inequalities in COVID-19 response across Middle East and North Africa Photo: Lebanese Red Cross 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 i...

Bold steps required to ease planetary pressure – UNDP Report The COVID-19 pandemic is the latest crisis facing the world. Unless humans release their grip on nature, it won’t be the last, according to a new report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), which includes a new experimental index on human progress that takes into account countries’ carbon dioxide emissions and material footprint. The 30th anniversary edition of the Human Development Report, ‘The Next Frontier: Human Development and the Anthropocene’, lays out a stark choice for world leaders – take bold st...

UNDP report on advancing human progress 16th Dec 2020    |    Source: UNDP Bold steps are required to advance equitable human progress while easing planetary pressure, new UNDP report An experimental global index offers a new measurement of human progress that accounts for planetary pressure to guide an equitable and sustainable recovery from COVID-19. Bold steps are required to advance equitable human progress while easing planetary pressure, new UNDP reportThe COVID-19 pandemic is the latest crisis facing the world. Unless humans release their grip on nature, it won’t be the last...