“The message is clear: We must not allow lifesaving health interventions to fall victim to our efforts to address COVID-19.”
Read UNICEFs Executive Director Henrietta Fore’s full statement at UNICEF.
“I urge governments, civil society, health authorities and others to come together urgently to address the mental health dimension of this pandemic.”
Read SG António Guterres full speech at United Nations COVID-19 Response. Video presentation included.
Watch SG Guterres make his historic appeal to religious leaders on UN Web TV. (transcript available)
“Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) is profoundly impacting lives around the globe. Isolation, contact restrictions and economic shutdown impose a complete change to our psychosocial environment. As the pandemic is evolving through phases, ESCAP is evaluating the impact these phases will have on child and adolescent psychiatric service provisions.”
“With 90 countries in lockdown, four billion people are now sheltering at home from the global contagion of COVID-19. It’s a protective measure, but it brings another deadly danger. We see a shadow pandemic growing, of violence against women.”
Read the full position statement by Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women.
“With internet use increasing, and parents pulled in many directions, supervising kids’ online activity is both harder and more important than ever before. In this temporary new world, the key is to find a balance between remote learning, watching videos and online gaming, and everything else that helps foster a healthy, balanced lifestyle.”
Read the full news story by Graig Silliman, Verizon (26 March 2020).
“Through a joint statement, these leaders call for an urgent, united effort to address violence against children as part of the broader response to COVID-19. Everyone has a role to play in this response, including the international community and leaders from every sector. Specifically, the statement acknowledges that governments should ensure COVID-19 prevention and response plans integrate age-appropriate, gender-sensitive measures to protect children from violence, exploitation and abuse.”
“Make Mothers Matter is, as ever, primarily concerned with mothers. They are living through this period in very different ways. For, while we are all concerned, our individual circumstances mean that the consequences are far from uniform: this crisis also exacerbates inequalities.”
Read the full position statement by Make Mothers Matter (MMM).
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