Covid-19, sdg's and the global south

The Inter Press Service (IPS) News Agency was created in 1964, believing in the role of information as a precondition for lifting communities out of poverty and marginalization. The IPS mission is as follows: 

• "“giving a voice to the voiceless”– acting as a communication channel that privileges the voices and the concerns of the poorest and creates a climate of understanding, accountability and participation around development, promoting a new international information order between the South and the North."​ 

Mand​atory protective face masks in Cuba, from Jorge Luis Baños/IPS

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The SDGs, COVID-19 and the Global South:
​Insights from the Sustainable Development Report 2020
By Guillaume Lafortune, Finn Woelm, Grayson Fuller, and Alyson Marks

"Every year, the Sustainable Development Report (SDR) tracks the performance of all UN member states on the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – adopted in 2015 by world leaders. This article discusses progress made on the SDGs in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and South Asia, as well as the likely short-term impacts of COVID-19 in these regions where reported daily cases and virus transmission are growing rapidly. It identifies five key measures that international cooperation efforts should urgently include to address the immediate consequences of the health and economic crises in vulnerable countries and population groups." Read the full article here.