Battle Against the “Tsunami of Hate”: UN

Read the full text of the speech from the UN secretary-general.

Read an article from the Washington Post about how one-third to one-half of US Covid-19 deaths may be associated with nursing homes.

Read an article from CNN about a research study finding a disproportionate impact of Covid-19 on minority communities: “Black Americans represent 13.4% of the American population, according to the US Census Bureau, but counties with higher black populations account for more than half of all Covid-19 cases and almost 60% of deaths.”

Read a report from the Lancet on the Covid-19 challenge for prisons around the globe: “International norms stipulate that prisoners should receive the same standard of health care as the wider community. The reality is very different….The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, has encouraged governments to release inmates who are especially vulnerable to COVID-19, such as older people, as well as low-risk offenders.”

Read about a report from the Houston Chronicle on the demographics of the meat-processing industry: “Immigrant laborers joined the meatpacking workforce in the 1980s and their numbers continue to grow. In the 1980s, about 10 percent of the meatpacking workforce was Hispanic. By 2003, that figure rose to nearly 41.5 percent…. [Workers] are uneducated and work in extremely unsafe work conditions. Nearly every worker in meatpacking plants has injuries. Cutting stations are located close to each other, automated lines move too quickly for workers to keep up, and workers must put in long shifts or fear losing their jobs.”

Read about extremists exploiting the pandemic from article from the New York Times and Voice of America.