Regional Highlights The COVID-19 pandemic has hit Latin America and the Caribbean in a context of low growth, marked inequality and vulnerability, growing poverty and extreme poverty, weakening of...
LATINOAMÉRICA & EL CARIBE: PANORAMA DE CRISIS COVID-19 Latinoamérica y el Caribe concentra casi el 30 por ciento de los casos de COVID-19 a nivel global, a pesar de ser menos del diez por ciento de...
LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN: COVID-19 CRISIS OVERVIEW Latin America and the Caribbean now accounts for nearly 30 per cent of global COVID-19 cases, despite having less than a tenth of the global...
If asked to describe the onset of COVID-19 in their countries, government officials around the world might answer that the pandemic hit “like a hurricane.” This sense of onslaught is certainly true...
Highlights UNICEF continues to scale-up and deliver across sectors to address the needs created by the COVID-19 pandemic. To date, UNICEF has reached 2.6 billion people on COVID- 19 messaging on...
The UN entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women (UN Women), and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), convened High-Level representatives from the Caribbean Community...
CEPAL y OPS: Controlar la pandemia requiere de convergencia y articulación entre las políticas de salud, económicas, sociales y productivas Nuevo informe de ambos organismos plantea que solo...
ECLAC and PAHO: Controlling the pandemic requires convergence and coordination between health, economic, social and productive policies New joint report states that economic recovery will only be...
Caribbean policymakers strategize on gender-related initiatives and the care economy in their post-COVID-19 recovery efforts. Date: Thursday, July 30, 2020 Media contact UN Women:...
Overview: Mexico & Central America ACAPS included Costa Rica and Mexico in their July 2020 Humanitarian Access Overview as countries with deteriorating humanitarian access since their previous...