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Geneva Palais briefing note on the impact of the deadly COVID-19 surge on children in India

Share This Page: Statement by UNICEF Representative Dr Yasmin Ali Haque GENEVA, 7 May 2021 –  “India is in the grip of a ferocious second wave of COVID-19. In the last 24 hours, India bore the burden of 414,188 new daily cases, which is highest daily case count ever recorded by any country in the history of COVID-19 pandemic – higher than even the count a day earlier (412,262). There were 3,915 deaths due to COVID-19. “UNICEF is very concerned about this deadly daily surge of in new cases. This wave is almost four times the size of the first wave and the virus is spreading much faster.  On an average there were more than four new cases every second and more than two deaths every minute in last 24 hours. With the surge in cases, the virus is also affecting more people across age groups including children and infants.

Latest from Mormon Land: Remembering when the church spoke out against the MX and the arms race

X-ing out the MX Forty years ago Wednesday, the church helped shoot down controversial plans to base a nuclear missile system in Utah’s West Desert. In a detailed, descriptive and impassioned 700-word statement issued May 5, 1981, the governing First Presidency decried the arms buildup, the destabilizing nature of the proposed MX deployment, and the impact the weapons plan could have on the environment, the economy and all of humanity. “By way of general observation, we repeat our warnings against the terrifying arms race in which the nations of the earth are presently engaged,” then-church President Spencer W. Kimball and his counselors wrote. “We deplore in particular the building of vast arsenals of nuclear weaponry.”

INDIA / UNICEF REPRESENTATIVE COVID-19

The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) Representative in India, Yasmin Ali Haque, called for “investment in the services that are critical for children to remain healthy, for them to thrive, and also to recover from the trauma that they are facing” during the COVID-19 pandemic. UNIFEED / UNICEF FILE

Coronavirus Australia: India flights to resume soon as Darwin COVID quarantine facility expands

Coronavirus Australia: India flights to resume soon as Darwin COVID quarantine facility expands
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Desi ads follow gender stereotypes: UN study | India News

NEW DELHI: New research released by Unicef on representation of women in advertisements shows that while girls and women are well-represented as characters (49.6%) and dominate screen time (59.7%) and speaking time (56.3%), it is mostly to sell domestic and beauty products to female consumers when they appear in adverts. “In this way, the presence of women in ads in India reinforces traditional gender roles. This is problematic because of the inter-generational transfer of norms to children, including a lack of empowering role models for men undertaking domestic work in the home and women working in the paid workforce,” said the report titled “Gender Bias & Inclusion In Advertising In India.”

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