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Acts

COVID-19 – Potential Impact on the World’s Poorest People. A WFP analysis of the economic and food security implications of the pandemic

WFP Chief warns of hunger pandemic as COVID-19 spreads (Statement to UN Security Council)

WBG – Which Jobs Are Most Vulnerable to COVID-19? What an Analysis of the European Union Reveals. Research & Policy Briefs; no. 34

WBG – Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) and COVID-19 : Critical WASH Interventions for Effective COVID-19 Pandemic Response

WBG – The Potential Impact of COVID-19 on GDP and Trade : A Preliminary Assessment

WBG – Supporting Women Throughout the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Emergency Response and Economic Recovery

WBG Policy Note- Protecting Productive Assets During the COVID-19 Pandemic

WBG – Trade and COVID-19 Guidance Note: Managing Risk and Facilitating Trade in the COVID-19 Pandemic 

WBG – Macroeconomic Policy in the Time of COVID-19 : A Primer for Developing Countries (English). Research & Policy Briefs; no. 28

WBG – Investing in the Early Years During COVID-19

WBG – Joint Press Conference on Covid-19 by IMF Managing Director and World Bank Group President

WBG – Health Services Trade and the COVID-19 Pandemic

WBG – Ensuring Integrity in Governments’ Response to COVID-19

WBG – East Asia and the Pacific in the Time of COVID-19 – Regional Economic Update, April 2020

WBG – COVID-19 Crisis Through a Migration Lens. Migration and Development Brief, no. 32

WBG – An Opportunity to Build Legitimacy and Trust in Public Institutions in the Time of COVID-19

WBG – Potential Responses to the COVID-19 Outbreak in Support of Migrant
Workers

WBG – The COVID-19 pandemic: shocks to education and policy responses

WBG- Fighting COVID-19 (English). Europe and Central Asia Economic Update

WBG Semiannual Report of the Latin America and Caribbean Region – The economy in the time of COVID-19

WBG Policy Note – Trade Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis in Africa

WBG Policy Note – Gender dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic

UNACTAD – The need to protect science, technology and innovation funding during and after the COVID-19 crisis

UNACTAD – The Covid-19 Shock to Developing Countries: Towards a “whatever it takes” programme for the two-thirds of the world’s population being left behind

UNACTAD – The COVID-19 Crisis: Accentuating the Need to Bridge Digital Divides

UNACTAD – The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Blue Economy: New challanges and prospects for recovery and resilience

UNACTAD – The coronavirus shock: a story of another global crisis foretold and what policymakers should be doing about it

UNACTAD Investment Promotion and Facilitation Monitor – Investment promotion agencies: striving to overcome the COVID-19 challange

UNACTAD Investment Policy Monitor – Investment policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic

UNACTAD Investment Trends Monitor – Impact of the COVD-19 pandemic on global FDI and GVCs (updated analysis)

UNACTAD – How countries can leverage trade facilitation to defeat the COVID-19 pandemic

UNACTAD- Global trade impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic

UNACTAD From the Great Lockdown to the Great Meltdown: Developing Country Debt in the Time of Covid-19

How UNACTAD’s e-government platform helps countries stay open for business during COVID-19

UNCTAD- Covid-19: a 10-point action plan to strengthen international trade and transport facilitation in times of pandemic

ILO – Banca dati misure dei paesi europei per lavoratori e imprese in risposta alla pandemia del COVID-19

ILO – Joint Statement on COVID-19 by International Organisation of Employers and International Trade Union Confederation

ILO Monitor – COVID-19 and the world of work (3rd ed.)

ILO Monitor – COVID-19 and the world of work (2nd ed.)

ILO Monitor – COVID-19 and the world of work (1st ed.)

ILO Standards and COVID-19 (coronavirus) – Key provisions of international labour standards relevant to the evolving COVID-19 outbreak

ILO Brief: Protecting migrant workers during the COVID-19 pandemic Recommendations for Policy-makers and Constituents

COVID-19 and Human Rights – We are all in this together

Debt and COVID-19: A Global Response in Solidarity

A UN framework for the immediate socio-economic response to COVID-19

The Secretary-General’s UN COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund

Shared Responsibility, Global Solidarity: Responding to the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19

Policy Brief: COVID-19 and the Need for Action on Mental Health

Policy Brief: The Impact of COVID-19 on older persons

Policy Brief: A Disability-Inclusive Response to COVID-19

Policy Brief: The Impact of COVID-19 on Women

Policy Brief: The Impact of COVID-19 on children

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 April 2020 – International cooperation to ensure global access to medicines, vaccines and medical equipment to face COVID-19

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 2 April 2020 – Global solidarity to fight the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

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Comments and papers

From insights to action: Gender equality in the wake of COVID-19 by Ginette Azcona, Antra Bhatt, Jessamyn Encarnacion, Juncal Plazaola-Castaño, Papa Seck, Silke Staab, and Laura Turquet

The Gendered Face of COVID-19: Women and Access to Justice by Jarpa Dawuni

WE EMPOWER – G7 programme (jointly implemented by UN Women and ILO and
funded by the European Union), Closing Gender Pay Gaps to Achieve Gender Equality at Work

COVID-19 and Gender Equality: A Call to Action for the Private Sector – WE EMPOWER – G7 programme (jointly implemented by UN Women and ILO and funded by the European Union)

COVID-19 and Ending Violence Against Women and Girls – UN Women

Policy Brief: The Impact of COVID-19 on Women – UN Women, UN Secretariat

COVID-19 has “devastating” effects on women and girls by S. Cousins

The Impact of Covid-19 on women’s rights by R. Russo

COVID-19 crisis and support for agrifood: Public sector responses through the financial sector

COVID-19 and indigenous peoples

Covid-19 as a threat to international peace andsecurity: The role of the UN Security Council inaddressing the pandemic by Erin Pobjie

Capacity-Building, International Cooperation, and COVID-19 by Matiangai Sirleaf

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on counter terrorism and countering violent extremism by UN Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate

United Nations Guidance Note on Addressing and Countering COVID-19 related Hate Speech

NATO Chief Rebukes China Over Coronavirus Disinformation by Robbie Gramer

Opinio Juris Symposium: COVID-19 and International Law by Vv.AA.

UN on COVID-19: Human Rights and COVID-19 Response and Recovery by Carsten Weerth

International Human Rights Law and COVID-19 States of Emergency by Cassandra Emmons

Social Protection and Jobs Responses to COVID-19: A Real-Time Review of Country Measures by Vv. Aa.

Covid-19 and the Global Legal Disorder by Simon Chesterman

The Legal Duty to Cooperate amid COVID-19: A Missed Opportunity? by Rana Moustafa Fouad

Carcere, diritti, organismi internazionali al tempo del Coronavirus by Patrizio Gonnella

Pandemia, imprese e diritti umani. L’applicazione dei principi guida ONU su impresa e diritti umani al tempo del Covid-19 by Marco Fasciglione

Protecting against Investor–State claims amidst Covid-19: a call to action for governments by Vv.Aa.

La pandemia di Covid 19: l’ONU finalmente batte un colpo? by Ilja Richard Pavone

How international organizations are stepping up to respond to the pandemic by Stephanie C. Hofmann, Christian Kreuder-Sonnen

Force majeure and Covid-19: legal risks of a double-edged sword by IGF

«Nous sommes en guerre»: la lotta globale alla pandemia alla prova del patto internazionale sui diritti civili e politici by Francesca Tammone

L’impatto della pandemia da Covid-19 sulle donne: considerazioni sul policy brief del Segretario Generale dell’ONU del 9 aprile 2020 by Fulvia Staiano

Misure di contrasto all’epidemia e diritti umani, fra limitazioni ordinarie e deroghe by Emanuele Sommario

Covid-19 crisis between US, China and the WHO by Ilknur Şimşek

Covid-19 and food insecurity: what is the role of international cooperation? by Vv.Aa.

The missing operational components of the IHR (2005) from the experience of handling the outbreak of Covid-19: precaution, independence, transparency and universality by Chang-fa Lo

International law on pandemic response: a first stocktaking in light of the coronavirus crisis by Armin von Bogdandy and Pedro A. Villarreal

Global public health issues – From isolationism to mutual vulnerability and back: International law and unfair distribution of global disease burdens by Obijiofor Aginam

Would COVID-19 be the turning point in history for the globalization era? The short-term and long-term impact of COVID-19 on Globalization by Amin R. Yacoub and Mohamed S. El-Zomor

International Governance of Global Health Pandemics by Anastasia Telesetsky

Gauging the Advisory Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice
in the Face of COVID-19 by Atul Alexander

LA PANDEMIA DI COVID 19: L’ONU FINALMENTE BATTE UN COLPO? by ILJA RICHARD PAVONE

L’IMPATTO DELLA PANDEMIA DA COVID-19 SULLE DONNE: CONSIDERAZIONI SUL POLICY BRIEF DEL SEGRETARIO GENERALE DELL’ONU DEL 9 APRILE 2020 by Fulvia Staiano

Covid-19: Just Disastrous or the Disaster Itself? Applying the ILC Articles on the Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters to the Covid-19 Outbreak by Alp Ozturk

COVID-19 as a Threat to International Peace and Security: What place for the UN Security Council? by Marko Svicevic

GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE PLAN COVID-19