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Multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination experienced by older persons are exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic and aggravate their vulnerabilities.
This policy brief highlights the impact of COVID-19 on women and girls with disabilities and provides policy guidance for governments and other stakeholders to adopt inclusive and accessible measures to not only mitigate the adverse impacts of the crisis but build resilient societies.
Young people will form a key element in an inclusive recovery
and the achievement of the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) during this Decade of Action. However,
the response and recovery must be done in a way that
protects the human rights of all youth.
Robust and coordinated development cooperation will remain critical to ensure that developing countries can weather the storm and accelerate sustainable development of their economies
Scaled-up international development cooperation will
remain
critical for ensuring that small island economies
can strengthen their health response to the pandemic, while
safeguarding food security and averting an economic crisis.
This brief identifies inequalities around the COVID-19
pandemic in exposure, vulnerabilities and coping capacity.
It suggests that crisis responses in four areas could turn
the tide on inequality. These include expanding systems
for the universal provision of quality social services;
identifying and empowering vulnerable groups; investing
in jobs and livelihoods; and acting through the multilateral
system to respond to disparities across countries.
Covid-19 threatens to have devastating consequences in least developed countries (LDCs). Unless bold policy actions are taken by the international community, achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the 2030 deadline will likely slip out of reach.
2020 Monitoring reports for Angola, Bhutan, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu