Unric Info Point Library Newsletter September 2020

<img decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-40309" src="https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/09/unga75-300x43.png" alt="" width="500" height="71" srcset="https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/09/unga75-300x43.png 300w, https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/09/unga75-150x21.png 150w, https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/09/unga75-696x100.png 696w, https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/09/unga75.png 700w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" /> Theme for the General Debate of the 75th session of the General Assembly: “The future we want, the United Nations we need: reaffirming our collective commitment to multilateralism –confronting COVID-19 through effective multilateral action”... The 75th regular session of the General Assembly will open 15 September 2020. Further information: • Quiet corridors but a full programme at virtual UNGA75: five things you need to know (UN News Centre, 6 September 2020): https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/09/1071712 Press Kit consisting of biography of the General Assembly President, his vision statement, his acceptance speech, backgrounder on the 75th session of the GA, list of past GA presidents English: https://www.un.org/en/pga-elect/75 French: https://www.un.org/fr/pga-elect/75 Spanish:... * New websites and publications of the UN system; * New information material available for download.

Get our latest up-to-date backgrounders on the most topical UN subjects. The Future We Want, The United Nations We Need: Update on the Work of the Office on the Commemoration of the UN’s 75th Anniversary (September 2020) https://www.un.org/en/un75/presskit Report: https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/un75report_september_final_english.pdf <img decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-41007" src="https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/10/un75report-272x300.jpg"... Through surveys and dialogues, it asked people about their hopes and fears for the future–representing the UN’s most ambitious effort to date to understand expectations of international cooperation and of the UN in particular. It is also the largest survey to date on priorities for recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic. As of 21September2020, over a million people from all countries and all walks of life had taken part. Their answers provide unique insights into what the public wants at this challenging time for the world.

They were released on 21 September 2020 to coincide with the UN General Assembly’s official commemoration of the 75th anniversary, held under the banner: the future we want, the UN we need. <img decoding="async" class="alignleft wp-image-40985" src="https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/10/a-75-1-book-233x300.jpg" alt="" width="175" height="225" srcset="https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/10/a-75-1-book-233x300.jpg 233w, https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/10/a-75-1-book-327x420.jpg 327w, https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/10/a-75-1-book-150x193.jpg 150w, https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/10/a-75-1-book-300x386.jpg 300w, https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/10/a-75-1-book.jpg 407w" sizes="(max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px" /> Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization (A/75/1) – Colour Publication English, French & Spanish: https://undocs.org/(A/75/1)%20COLOR%20PUBLICATION German: https://www.un.org/Depts/german/gs/a75-1-glossy.pdf Report of the UN Economist Network for the UN 75th Anniversary: Shaping the Trends of Our Time Report in English, Executive Summary in English, French & Spanish: https://www.un.org/development/desa/publications/report-of-the-un-economist-network-for-the-un-75th-anniversary-shaping-the-trends-of-our-time.html <img decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-40984" src="https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/10/un75-economist-network-report-232x300.jpg" alt=""... Efforts to reverse or redirect these trends must be reinforced to ensure that we achieve the full measure of the 2030 Agenda, and set the stage for an inclusive, sustainable and equitable future during... All trends are the result of human activity, and as such, they can be shaped by human decisions and policy choices.

By making the right choices today, without further delay, it is not too late to shape the major trends of our time in a direction that is sustainable and delivers benefits to all. Policies can influence a single megatrend as well as other megatrends that interact with it.This creates the potential for co-benefits, where a positive result is achieved in one area through an intervention designed to... Such policy interventions can propel more effective, mutually reinforcing changes, and significantly greater impacts. The United Nations can help to frame responses to the megatrends in terms that encourage domestic political consensus to form behind taking sustained action. In doing so, the United Nations can assist in mobilizing needed global support for individual countries, particularly those with fewer resources. <img decoding="async" class="alignleft wp-image-40981" src="https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/10/un75-delegates-handbook-195x300.jpg" alt="" width="175" height="269" srcset="https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/10/un75-delegates-handbook-195x300.jpg 195w, https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/10/un75-delegates-handbook-274x420.jpg 274w, https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/10/un75-delegates-handbook.jpg 357w" sizes="(max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px" />

<img decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-39020" src="https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/08/nelson-mandela-lecture-1024x600.jpg" alt="" width="350" height="205" srcset="https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/08/nelson-mandela-lecture-1024x600.jpg 1024w, https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/08/nelson-mandela-lecture-300x176.jpg 300w, https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/08/nelson-mandela-lecture-768x450.jpg 768w, https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/08/nelson-mandela-lecture-1536x900.jpg 1536w, https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/08/nelson-mandela-lecture-scaled.jpg 2048w, https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/08/nelson-mandela-lecture-696x408.jpg 696w, https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/08/nelson-mandela-lecture-1068x626.jpg 1068w, https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/08/nelson-mandela-lecture-1920x1125.jpg 1920w, https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/08/nelson-mandela-lecture-717x420.jpg 717w, https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/08/nelson-mandela-lecture-500x293.jpg 500w" sizes="(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px" /> The pandemic has demonstrated the fragility of our world. It has laid bare risks we have ignored for decades: inadequate health systems; gaps in social protection; structural inequalities; environmental degradation; the climate crisis. On Nelson Mandela International Day, 18 July, UN Secretary-General António Guterres delivered the 18th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture. In his speech “Tackling the Inequality Pandemic: A New Social Contract for a New Era”, the Secretary-General took aim at the various layers of inequality that are being exposed and exacerbated by the COVID-19... He outlined the threat posed to our well-being and our future by historic injustices and current trends, from colonialism and patriarchy to racism and the digital divide, and made concrete recommendations for a more...

Lecture in English: https://www.un.org/press/en/2020/sgsm20179.doc.htm Lecture in French: https://www.un.org/press/fr/2020/sgsm20179.doc.htm German translation: https://www.un.org/Depts/german/gs/Nelson-Mandela-Rede-DUED-NY-final.pdf <img decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-38994" src="https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/08/future-possibilities-216x300.jpg" alt="" width="175" height="244" srcset="https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/08/future-possibilities-216x300.jpg 216w, https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/08/future-possibilities-302x420.jpg 302w, https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/08/future-possibilities-150x209.jpg 150w, https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/08/future-possibilities-300x418.jpg 300w, https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/08/future-possibilities.jpg 403w" sizes="(max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px" />2020 Future Possibilities Report https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/20200720_un75_uae_futurepossibilitiesreport.pdf The inaugural “2020 Future Possibilities Report” provides... The Report launch, organized by the United Arab Emirates and the “UN75: 2020 and Beyond initiative,” presents an analysis of six transformational trends – from connectivity to self-improvement spending to renewable energy – that... Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS) – new website https://www.un.org/ohrlls/ <img decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-38998 alignright" src="https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/08/ohrlls-300x168.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="168" srcset="https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/08/ohrlls-300x168.jpg 300w,... The site will be an information resource for data and analysis on how global trends – from COVID-19 to climate change, from trade to debt distress – are playing out in the world’s most... <img decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-35141 alignright" src="https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/03/coronavirus-backgrounder-300x206.jpg" alt="Novel Coronavirus Backgrounder" width="300" height="206" srcset="https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/03/coronavirus-backgrounder-300x206.jpg 300w, https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/03/coronavirus-backgrounder-150x103.jpg 150w, https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/03/coronavirus-backgrounder-218x150.jpg 218w, https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/03/coronavirus-backgrounder-100x70.jpg 100w, https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/03/coronavirus-backgrounder.jpg 436w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />UNRIC Library Backgrounder on the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) We...

English: https://bit.ly/38METJm French: https://bit.ly/39zEFWA New web portal for the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic English: https://www.un.org/en/coronavirus French: https://www.un.org/fr/coronavirus Spanish: https://www.un.org/es/coronavirus The United Nations is actively addressing the global COVID-19 outbreak on several fronts – from situation reports and technical guidelines,... Our new portal www.un.org/coronavirus brings together information from the United Nations and the World Health Organization, as well as other UN agencies. Get the latest news and answers to your questions. Be sure to visit regularly to get your facts from reliable sources. The portal also has dedicated sections for UN personnel and delegations.

COVID-19: How to include marginalized and vulnerable people in risk communication and community engagement (IFRC / OCHA / WHO) https://reliefweb.int/report/world/covid-19-how-include-marginalized-and-vulnerable-people-risk-communication-and <img decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-35153" src="https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/03/covid19-community-engagement-212x300.jpg" alt="" width="175" height="247" srcset="https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/03/covid19-community-engagement-212x300.jpg 212w, https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/03/covid19-community-engagement-150x212.jpg 150w, https://e4k4c4x9.delivery.rocketcdn.me/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/03/covid19-community-engagement.jpg 220w"... Women, the elderly, adolescents, youth, and children, persons with disabilities, indigenous populations, refugees, migrants, and minorities experience the highest degree of socio-economic marginalization. Marginalized people become even more vulnerable in emergencies. This is due to factors such as their lack of access to effective surveillance and early-warning systems, and health services. The COVID-19 outbreak is predicted to have significant impacts on various sectors. Key messages and actions for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) prevention and control in schools: Guidance from UNICEF, the World Health Organization and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies English, French &...

While COVID-19 continues to spread, it is important that communities take action to prevent further transmission, reduce the impacts of the outbreak and support control measures. The protection of children and educational facilities is particularly important. Precautions are necessary to prevent the potential spread of COVID-19 in school settings. However, care must also be taken to avoid stigmatizing students and staff who may have been exposed to the virus. COVID-19 does not differentiate among borders, ethnicities, disability status, age or gender. Education settings should continue to be welcoming, respectful, inclusive and supportive environments to all.

Measures taken by schools can prevent the entry and spread of COVID-19 by students and staff who may have been exposed to the virus, while minimizing disruption and protecting students and staff from discrimination. The purpose of this document is to provide clear and actionable guidance for safe operations through the prevention, early detection and control of COVID-19 in schools and other educational facilities. The guidance, while specific to countries that have already confirmed the transmission of COVID-19, is relevant in all other contexts. Education can encourage students to become advocates for disease prevention and control at home, in school and in their community by talking to others about how to prevent the spread of viruses. Maintaining safe school operations or reopening schools after a closure requires many considerations but, if done well, can promote public health. Policy Steps to Address the Corona Crisis (IMF Policy Paper, 16 March 2020) English, French, Spanish & Portuguese: https://bit.ly/2IT5eum Monitoring, containing and mitigating the effects of the corona virus are top priorities.

Timely and decisive actions by health authorities, central banks, fiscal, regulatory and supervisory authorities can help contain the virus outbreak and offset the economic impact of the pandemic. Central banks must support demand and confidence by preventing a tightening of financial conditions, lowering borrowing costs for households and firms, and ensuring market liquidity. Fiscal policy must step up to provide sizable support to the most affected people and firms, including in hard-to-reach informal sectors. Regulatory and supervisory responses must aim to preserve financial stability and banking system soundness while sustaining economic activity. Buletin informativ al Bibliotecii Centrului Regional de Informații al Națiunilor Unite https://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/20200909_Lessons-HIV-COVID19.pdf

Un nou raport al UNAIDS - lansat la 9 septembrie 2020 - arată cum țările care se luptă cu COVID-19 folosesc experiența și infrastructura din răspunsul la SIDA pentru a asigura un răspuns mai... Acesta arată că, identificând schimbările dinamice necesare, pot fi găsite sisteme eficiente, incluzive, echitabile și cu resurse suficiente. Cele trei oportunități evidențiate în raport sunt: ​​(1) că lecțiile cheie învățate din răspunsul la HIV ar trebui să informeze răspunsurile COVID-19; (2) modul în care infrastructura HIV conduce deja răspunsurile COVID-19 și are... De la perspective la acțiune: egalitatea de gen în urma COVID-19 (ONU Femei / PNUD) https://www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2020/09/gender-equality-in-the-wake-of-covid-19

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