MMS & UN News Letter April 2020 |
Dear Readers
The UN General Assembly (UNGA) Member States have adopted by consensus a Resolution (A/RES/74/270) on COVID-19 that calls for “international cooperation” and “multilateralism”. It calls for “intensified international cooperation to contain, mitigate and defeat the pandemic, including by exchanging information, scientific knowledge and best practices”. It stresses “the need for full respect for human rights” and states that “there is no place for any form of discrimination, racism and xenophobia in the response to the pandemic”.UNGA Engagements and operations have moved to cyberspace, with ambassadors and diplomats working from their missions or from home. UNWeb portal for COVID 19 https://www.un.org/en/coronavirus We the NGOs are busy with Zoom calls connecting with one another and taking our advocacy forward. Please see the first JCoR (Justice Coalition of Religious) newsletter.There were a number of meetings organized by JCoR before the Pandemic- 2 …