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Suzanne Ware, Chair of the Pag-La-Yiri association, talks to us about the role of women in the informal economy in Burkina Faso. She relates this to the health crisis that the country is currently facing.
Based on research and his professional experiences, Kodzo AgbenyegaTsolenyanu, Executive Director of Emmaus MARS (Togo), provides his analysis of the position of women in the informal sector across the African continent, the impact of the pandemic on this sector, along with the responses from the Emmaus movement during this crisis period.
The Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CoNGO) highlights the devastating consequences of the health crisis, mainly for vulnerable people, and denounces the restrictions to human rights caused by the measures taken to contain the spread of the virus. It calls on the 193 Member-States of the United Nations to renew their efforts to promote a fairer, more sustainable world which upholds human rights.