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Las fronteras, cada vez más móviles e invisibles, siguen siendo auténticas barreras
Las fronteras de hoy no se delimitan forzosamente con muros de ladrillo y alambradas de púas sino que se están metamorfoseando en barreras móviles construidas mediante la aplicación de tecnologías de vanguardia y reglamentaciones complejas que restringen la circulación de los ciudadanos. Esta metamorfosis se ha acentuado con la pandemia de COVID-19.
Our guest: Yuval Noah Harari: “Every crisis is also an opportunity”
Research: “This epidemic will be a detonator”
Nathalie Strub-Wourgaft is one of the initiators of the COVID-19 Clinical Research Coalition launched in April 2020. It brings together scientists physicians donors and policymakers from over thirty countries to accelerate research on the disease in resource-poor nations. She argues that research must be specifically adapted to the needs of these countries.
Indigenous peoples: Vulnerable, yet resilient
The global health crisis has highlighted the resilience of some indigenous communities. But above all it has revealed the fragility of these populations – whose poverty malnutrition and poor access to health care makes them particularly vulnerable to infectious diseases.
The health crisis: Fertile ground for disinformation
Disinformation and conspiracy theories have proliferated on social media during the pandemic. Black tea neem leaves and pepper soup have been touted as miracle cures for COVID-19 in Africa and elsewhere. To combat this infodemic digital platforms must be made more accountable fake news tracked and called out and media literacy developed.
Latin America: Towards a new social pact
Declining incomes school drop-outs the growth of informal work and steep rises in unemployment. The social consequences of the health crisis for the inhabitants of the Latin America and the Caribbean region have been massive. The author calls for the establishment of a fairer and more supportive social system to avoid a deepening of inequalities.
Education: An opportunity to reinvent teaching
More than 1.5 billion students – or ninety per cent of the world’s student population – have been affected by temporary closures of schools and universities in 2020 due to the health crisis according to UNESCO. Educational institutions have been forced almost overnight to switch to remote learning platforms and devise alternative teaching methods.
Wide angle a whole new world, reimagined by women: What the pandemic says about us
The higher value placed on human life the rise of the influence of health services the medicalization of our lives the extension of state power – these phenomena did not arise from the crisis caused by the pandemic but were revealed by it.
Shifting borders: Invisible, but very real
Today’s borders are no longer necessarily made of bricks and barbed wire. They are increasingly becoming moving barriers that rely on cutting-edge technologies and complex regulations to impose travel restrictions on citizens. The COVID-19 pandemic has further accentuated this phenomenon.
Mapping the world: Education: An unprecedented crisis
The closure of schools and universities around the world to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic caused a major education crisis that reached its peak in mid-April 2020. Between 16 and 19 April schools shut down in more than 190 countries affecting 1.57 billion children and young people – over ninety per cent of all learners. Throughout the health crisis UNESCO monitored the situation globally by publishing a map of school closures on its website.
The pandemic: Mirroring our fragilities
Social inequalities gender violence poor housing failing health systems – the health crisis has exposed the fractures that divide our societies. To change the world we will have to address challenges that we have not been able to face up to so far.
Rethinking museums for the future
With new constraints on welcoming visitors the Queens Museum in New York City – like many other institutions around the world – is reflecting on how best to redefine our ties to art and culture. The museum’s team is working on an inclusive model that places artists educators and residents at the heart of its activities as it seeks to reinvent itself.
Pueblos indígenas: La fragilidad a prueba de la crisis
La crisis sanitaria mundial ha demostrado la resiliencia de algunas comunidades indígenas. Pero sobre todo ha puesto de relieve la fragilidad de estos grupos humanos cuya pobreza desnutrición y escaso acceso a la atención médica los hace especialmente vulnerables a las enfermedades infecciosas.
Gran angular ¿un mundo diferente? Las mujeres tienen la palabra: Revelaciones de la crisis sanitaria
El valor supremo concedido a la vida humana la potenciación de los servicios sanitarios la medicalización de nuestra existencia y la extensión del poder estatal son fenómenos que la crisis mundial generada por la pandemia nos ha revelado aunque no sean productos directos de ella.
Ideas: Pandemias ayer y hoy
Epidemias y pandemias no constituyen un fenómeno nuevo. La lepra la peste el cólera o la viruela han dejado secuelas imborrables en la historia de la humanidad. También han sido la razón de ciertos descubrimientos y de que el ser humano se cuestione a sí mismo.
Invisible in the media
Back in the eighteenth century the Anglo Irish philosopher George Berkeley summarized his theory of "immaterialism" in the following dictum: to be is to be perceived.
Educate girls, eradicate poverty a mutually reinforcing goal
There is no question that educating girls is a prerequisite for eradicating poverty. Education empowers and transforms women. It allows them to break the “traditional” cycle of exclusion that keeps them at home and disengaged from decision making Education especially higher education can prepare women to take on roles of responsibility in government business and civil society. Women make ideal leaders: numerous
United Nations agencies forward together in the response to violence against women
Momentum is building to eliminate the most pervasive yet least recognized human rights abuse in the world—'violence against women. Studies show that 70 per cent of women experience some form of physical or sexual violence in their lifetime. Everywhere communities civil society and governments are mobilizing to end practices that harm the health dignity security and autonomy of women and negatively impact society as a whole. The United Nations system is working together to support partners in this effort.
Lives of widows — a hidden issue
I grew up the son of a widow and witnessed first-hand the suffering my mother endured. When my father passed away my grandmother ordered my mother to remove her jewellery including her bindi and never to wear brightly-coloured clothes again. I was too young to comprehend these restrictions at that time however at my wedding the Hindu priest who was conducting the ceremony asked my mother to move away from the wedding altar because as a widow she could bring bad luck to the newly-wed couple.
When things fall apart
Liberia shows the way to deal with gender-based violence by establishing special courts and laws to try rapists and through empowering women and girls.