Oct 14, 2020 | COVID-19, Features
We are in the grip of a historic pandemic. The novel coronavirus, which causes COVID-19 threatening the whole of the human family. COVID-19 does not discriminate. Across the globe, outbreaks of COVID-19 continue to claim thousands of lives. So far, we have...
Sep 2, 2020 | COVID-19, Features, US Politics
Washington (CNN)Eighty-one Nobel Prize winners endorsed Joe Biden for president in an open letter on Wednesday, citing the former vice president’s “willingness to listen to experts” and his “deep appreciation for using science to find...
Jul 12, 2020 | Conflict, COVID-19, Features, Nuclear Weapons
IENNA – In a matter of months, the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the world almost beyond recognition. And yet the international cooperation that is so essential to confront a shared threat has been nowhere to be found. This should not be a surprise: our failure to...
May 18, 2020 | COVID-19, Features, Human Rights
NEWS PROVIDED BY Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation 18 May, 2020, 14:46 IST NEW DELHI, May 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Today, 88 Nobel Laureates and World Leaders, as part of Laureates and Leaders for Children, issued a statement calling for the...
May 14, 2020 | COVID-19, Features
More than 140 world leaders, experts and elders have made an unprecedented call for guarantees that COVID-19 vaccines, diagnostics, tests and treatments will be provided free of charge to everyone, everywhere GENEVA, 14 MAY 2020—More than 140 world leaders and...
May 8, 2020 | Conflict, COVID-19, Features
Security council had spent weeks seeking resolution but Trump administration opposed mention of WHO The US has blocked a vote on a UN security council resolution calling for a global ceasefire during the Covid-19 pandemic, because the Trump administration objected to...