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Warehouse staff prepares to UNICEF supplies to be delivered and distributed to health centres across Lebanon.

Even before the COVID-19 crisis, South Asia had a chronic education crisis with 95 million children of school age being out of school. With the current COVID-19 crisis unfolding, many of the 430 million children affected by school closures in the region are now in danger of dropping out of the education system.

A UNICEF shipment of 7.5 tons of vital health supplies is arriving in Bamako, Mali on a Danish flight of April 04, 2020, co-financed between the European Union (EU) and the Government of Denmark.

A deminer undergoing training in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

“No more femicides,” reads this graffiti, scrawled on a wall in Mexico City, where public outcry has been mounting against gender-motivated killings.

WHO and UNICEF on 3 April,2020 announced an agreement to work together on COVID-19 response, through the historic COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund powered by the United Nations Foundation and Swiss Philanthropy Foundation.

The World Food Programme is working with partner organization the Syrian Arab Red Crescent to distribute food to the most vulnerable people in Deir Hafer near Aleppo, and to ensure they are aware of COVID-19.

A five-year-old Yemeni boy stands outside a site for internally displaced people in Marib, Yemen, where conflict has forced thousands to flee.

As washing hands with soap and clean water is vital in the fight against COVID-19, governments worldwide must provide continuous access to sufficient water to their populations living in the most vulnerable conditions, UN experts* said.
“The global struggle against the pandemic has little chance to succeed if personal hygiene, the main measure to prevent contagion, is unavailable to the 2.2 billion persons who have no access to safe water services,” the experts said.

OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría called on March 21,2020 for sweeping joint action by governments to defeat the health, economic, and social threats of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. In calling on governments to better coordinate their efforts, Gurría announced that the OECD would channel its efforts into immediate support to policymakers combating the crisis, launching a new online policy hub immediately.