Covid-19 - openDemocracy (Page 47)

Walls and weapons can’t stop a virus: priorities must change!

The lessons learned from this crisis and for other possible future disasters, is that reform has become vital.

/ 14 Apr 2020

Walls and weapons can’t stop a virus: priorities must change!

#CONFLUENCERS: "Una agenda común para enfrentar la pandemia", Lucía Dammert

"¿Qué está pasando con América Latina? Nuestras capacidades para resolver los problemas en conjunto están lejanamente cercanas. Están más bien abandonadas".En esta entrega de #Confluencers, Lucía Dammert reflexiona sobre la necesidad de formular una agenda conjunta de América Latina para enfrentar

By democracia Abierta

/ 13 Apr 2020

Why are a third of UK COVID-19 patients ethnic minority?

People of colour are being hit disproportionately by this crisis. Why?

By Sunny Hundal

/ 11 Apr 2020

Why are a third of UK COVID-19 patients ethnic minority?

COVID-19: Canada locks its gates to asylum seekers

For asylum seekers, the route to a safe home is being all but eliminated.

By Claire Ellis

/ 10 Apr 2020

COVID-19: Canada locks its gates to asylum seekers

Seizing the unexpected opportunities of COVID-19

The pandemic provides a chance to re-evaluate and re-imagine our collective future.

By Sam Earle

/ 9 Apr 2020

Seizing the unexpected opportunities of COVID-19

How my north Texas students taught me ‘we’re all in the same boat’ is a lie

Asking big questions and learning from our different experiences are the first steps to a better world beyond coronavirus.

By Özlem Altıok

/ 9 Apr 2020

How my north Texas students taught me ‘we’re all in the same boat’ is a lie

We need to ramp up global public spending to fight COVID-19

The pandemic has shown us that global solidarity is not a nice idea – it is a necessity.

By Jonathan Glennie and Anton Ofield-Kerr

/ 9 Apr 2020

We need to ramp up global public spending to fight COVID-19

After the pandemic: a ten-point plan for the collective provision of basic needs

The coronavirus has made the foundational economy highly visible. Policy makers need to focus on these essential goods and services.

By The foundational economy collective

/ 9 Apr 2020

After the pandemic: a ten-point plan for the collective provision of basic needs

Isolated in a toxic relationship

I am in lockdown with my husband who drinks and shouts and breaks things. We live on social grants. My kids are trying to do homework on my phone. #HumansofCOVID19

By Karineh Matevosyan

/ 9 Apr 2020