COVID-19
A dashboard of tools, resources, ideas and stories during Covid-19, updated weekly.
Updated: July 21, 2021
Good finds online
What we're reading, watching and listening to
- Video
Young people from 18 countries in 6 continents react to the initial ‘wave’ of the coronavirus. A video series produced by Connor Kirwan and Toni Pyke.
Generation Lockdown in 2 minutes: Thailand
Generation Lockdown in 2 minutes: Thailand
Generation Lockdown in 2 minutes: Uganda, Italy & Australia
Generation Lockdown in 2 minutes: Brazil & Norway
Generation Lockdown in 2 minutes: India & Spain
Generation Lockdown in 2 minutes: El Salvador & Cambodia
Generation Lockdown in 2 minutes: Ethiopia & UK
Our Features
Butterflies for Bealtaine
A public project that invited the public to consider how a cocoon becomes a butterfly, creating art that expressed their hopes for the future of the world as we emerge from isolation under a global pandemic
Factsheet: Violence against women and the ‘Shadow Pandemic’
What’s the ‘Shadow Pandemic’? Has there really been a global surge in gender-based violence against women and girls?
Has only 1% of the 1.3 billion vaccines injected globally been administered in Africa?
What is vaccine inequality all about? ‘What The Fact?’ investigates.
‘You’re half the world away’ on International Women’s Day
Toni Pyke surveys the landscape on progress, setbacks, inequality made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic and suggests 10 things you can do on International Women’s Day
Interactive – Business and human rights under a global pandemic
Explore the map of repressive governments and a number of private companies that have exploited the coronavirus health crisis to further their own agendas at the expense of human rights, based on Trócaire’s documentary ‘Never Waste a Crisis’
Blogs
What we’ve learned from the Summit for Vaccine Internationalism
Gina Dorso explores the main outcomes of Progressive International’s Summit for Vaccine Internationalism and what can be done
8 Takeaways from Coalition 2030’s ‘A Just Recovery from Covid-19’ Conference
developmenteducation.ie’s Gina Dorso and Aoife Mc Donald share 8 takeaways from a major civil society event exploring ideas for a Just Recovery from COVID-19 based on the Sustainable Development Goals
‘Perfection is the enemy of the good’
Ciara Regan looks at the uneven distribution of vaccinations worldwide in advance of receiving her first vaccine dose
Prison-like conditions? Seeking asylum in India and Ireland
The system for asylum seeker accommodation in Ireland has been described as inhuman, degrading and illegal by human rights groups and critics. Navika Mehta reviews ‘Direct Provision’s legacy and compares it with a similar model that has appeared in India.
Pandemic Reflections
John Dornan ponders all things pandemic, as he gets his first COVID-19 vaccination
Women’s rights quiz -take the test
Take the quiz and test your knowledge, based on the 10 Myths About Women’s Rights myth buster.
Resources
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- Reads
Five issues the US President needs to take action on - Caoimhe de Barra
No election in the world attracts as much global attention as the race for the Whitehouse. That is because no political office in the world has as much global reach as that of the US President. (via Trócaire)
Covid-19 has revealed a pre-existing pandemic of poverty that benefits the rich
The World Bank’s flawed and misunderstood poverty benchmark has led to a deceptively positive picture and dangerous complacency. By outgoing UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston (via The Guardian)
COVID-19 and Development Education
A range of perspectives to inform practice and provoke debate, following a public call for submissions (via The Centre for Global Education, Belfast)
- Podcasts
Small Changes
A podcast series of one-on-one interviews with people who've seen a problem in the world and set out to change it. By The Guardian
Change the World
Young people across Ireland share their thoughts on the Sustainable Development Goals and how we can achieve them. By National Youth Council of Ireland and Spunout.ie
Will Black women decide the next US president?
The Take. An AJ+ podcast presented by Imaeyen Ibanga