At a time of a global health and economic crisis, some UN officials, such as the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, are calling for lifting sanctions around the world.
Category: COVID-19
COVID-19: Healthcare Workers Block Protest Against Colorado Stay-Home Order
Photojournalist Alyson McClaran captured the tense confrontation in a series of photos posted to social media on Sunday, reports Jake Johnson.
COVID-19: The City in a Time of Plague
History teaches us that epidemics are more like revelatory moments than social transformers, writes Pepe Escobar.
COVID-19: Thucydides and the Plague of Athens
The lessons we learn from coronavirus will come from our experiences, not from Thucydides, but he offers a description of a city-state in crisis as poignant and powerful now, as it was in 430BC, writes Chris Mackie.
COVID-19: North Korea’s Missing Data
COVID-19: The Transformation of Emmanuel Macron
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COVID-19: Progress Seen in Talks to End Yemen War
UN envoy expects a formal agreement soon that will lead to the end of the brutal Saudi assault on Yemen, reports Joe Lauria.
COVID-19: Vietnam Winning New War Against Invisible Enemy
The World Economic Forum, the Financial Times and others laud Vietnam as a low cost Covid-19 success story to be emulated by poor countries with limited resources, say Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram.
COVID-19: What Trump’s Funding Cuts to WHO Mean for World
An irony of the situation is that the international health authority has been criticized for decades for being too influenced by the U.S., writes Adam Kamradt-Scott.