COVID-19: From the Frontlines

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Learn about the advocacy and demands from our members in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic:   

In the face of potential COVID-19 outbreak in the Gaza Strip, Israel is obliged to take measures to save lives, permitting the entry of medical equipment and supplies, to meet patients’ needs:
>> http://mezan.org/en/post/23701

COVID-19 Measures in Gaza’s Prison and Detention Facilitates Mean Suspended Contact Between Al Mezan and Clients:
>> http://mezan.org/en/post/23703

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Addameer and Al-Haq Send Appeal to UN Special Procedures on the Situation of Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli Prisons amidst Concerns over COVID-19 Exposure.

>> http://addameer.org/news/addameer-and-al-haq-send-appeal-un-special-procedures-situation-palestinian-prisoners-israeli

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Arab Joint List, Adalah turn again to Supreme Court, demanding halt to Shin Bet’s invasive surveillance of citizens in struggle against coronavirus:
>> https://www.adalah.org/en/content/view/9957

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A regional civil society Initiative for Human Rights in Fiscal Policy in Latin America calls on States to undertake broad fiscal redistribution, and on multilateral institutions to free up fiscal space, in order to avoid dire human rights consequences.

>> https://www.cesr.org/sites/default/files/P%26G%20COVID19%20Statement%204.23.20%20.pdf

 

Aportes para una política fiscal respetuosa con los DESC, en el contexto de la pandemia global.

>> https://acij.org.ar/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Aportes-para-una-pol%C3%ADtica-fiscal-respetuosa-de-los-DESC-en-el-contexto-de-pandemia-global-1.pdf

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Coronavirus: A Call for Solidarity in a Time of Crisis

>> http://abahlali.org/node/17029/#more-17029

 

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Call for urgent action to eliminate or mitigate the consequences that have arisen on the poorest and most vulnerable categories of persons under the jurisdiction of the Republic of Serbia.

>> https://www.a11initiative.org/en/urgent-action-is-needed-to-protect-the-most-vulnerable-while-fighting-the-sars-cov-2-virus/

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