WASHINGTON -- Protecting the Defense Department's people, maintaining military readiness and supporting the whole-of-government interagency response are DOD's top three priorities amid the ...

The coronavirus pandemic is a global crisis tailor-made for a global response. The virus knows no borders and kills without discrimination. It has halted daily life and devastated economies. The ...

We kick off discussing the role of the World Health Organization in managing the global response to COVID-19 before having a broader conversation about how the coronavirus is affecting daily diplomacy ...

As COVID-19 continues to spread globally, people living in crisis will be hit hardest. The International Rescue Committee is scaling up our response to the coronavirus pandemic, providing lifesaving ...

Mark Lowcock is the United Nations’ under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is director-general of the World Health Organization. To stop the covid-19 ...

Isolated, abandoned, depressed. Those are the words used to describe how students feel during the COVID-19 pandemic. Most of them must study online with very little social interaction.

Excess deaths in the United States have continued to mount following the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to an early demise for hundreds of thousands, a new study says.. More than 1.5 million "missing ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic carves its dark entry into ... which aims to complement and support the Secretary-General’s initiatives in response to COVID-19. ... United Nations’ web site on Covid-19.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) published a story of five-year-old Yuanyuan from Wuhan, China, who was left behind home as her parents and grandparents tested positive for COVID-19 ...

The United States has been widely criticized for its approach to the coronavirus pandemic, and the lack of strict nationwide measures to contain the outbreak is reflected in the highest number of ...

It is now three years since United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for an “immediate global ceasefire” in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.On March 23, 2020, Guterres called ...

The SDG Media Compact, an alliance of news and entertainment companies convened by the United Nations to drive coverage and mobilize action for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), welcomed ...