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Side event recording available: COVID-19, Vaccine Inequality and Social Protection of women and marginalised communities Wednesday May 18th, 2022
This official side event at the 9th Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) discussed vaccine inequality and the lack of social protection mechanisms among the women and marginalized communities and…
Read more“SDGs and Migration in Europe” GCAP Side event at UNECE Regional Forum for Sustainable Development 2022 Friday April 8th, 2022
GCAP and partners have held the side event titled "SDGs and Migration in Europe" at the UNECE Regional Forum for Sustainable Development 2022. This event is part of the Faces…
Read moreRecoding of GCAP Global Webinar on Vaccine Inequality from April 6, 2022 Thursday April 7th, 2022
The Omicron variant of the Coronavirus, though milder, could spread in lightning speed affecting large populace in a short span. The need of hospitalisation was comparatively less than the earlier…
Read moreRecording now available: Side-event at UN Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development Thursday March 31st, 2022
Organisers: The Africa Platform for Social Protection, APSP Global Call to Action against Poverty, GCAP Many African countries remain behind or even off-track in different ways towards achievement of…
Read morePress and video coverage: GCAP Africa demands TRIPS Waiver Thursday March 31st, 2022
Actions on 11 March 2022 - the 2nd anniversary of the pandemic. A comprehensive list of media coverage sorted by country can be found at the bottom of this article.…
Read moreSide event: COVID-19, Vaccine Inequality and Social Protection of women and marginalised communities Monday March 21st, 2022
This official side event at the 9th Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) will discuss vaccine inequality and the lack of social protection mechanisms among the women and marginalized communities…
Read moreGCAP and partners host side-event at UN Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development Friday February 25th, 2022
You can join the GCAP Africa/APSP Side event on Social Protection on 25 February 2022 at 7 am GMT with this ZOOM link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81439340590 Organisers: The Africa Platform for Social…
Read moreHow the COVID-19 pandemic impacted Asia’s indigenous women Thursday February 3rd, 2022
This article first appeared on owsa.in. Lockdown measures and restrictive policies in the wake of COVID-19 have led to shrinkage of livelihood options for indigenous women and severely affected household…
Read moreFaces of Inequality: Stories of the poor and underprivileged from India’s grass-roots Thursday February 3rd, 2022
A book by Pradeep Baisakh As a part of the "Faces of Inequality Campaign" by GCAP, Pradeep Baisakh, Asia Coordinator of GCAP has written a book with the same title,…
Read more“Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Inequalities in Asia” second edition of report published Thursday January 6th, 2022
Download the full report here. Even though 80 per cent of the extreme poor in Asia Pacific were lifted of poverty by 2015, rising inequality remains a great cause of…
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