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Migrants Face \u201cDouble Threat\u201d Amid Coronavirus Pandemic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n By Jacqueline Skalski-Fouts*<\/p>\n\n\n\n This article discusses the economic and social impacts of the coronavirus pandemic with a particular focus on refugees, asylum seekers, and migrant workers.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n VIRGINIA, USA (IDN) \u2013 Migrant workers have been at the forefront of the world economy during the COVID-19 pandemic, as essential workers. And this with enormous risk to themselves. They are facing what the\u00a0International Rescue Committee<\/a>\u00a0refers to as an \u201cunimaginable double emergency\u201d.\u00a0INDONESIAN<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0JAPANESE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n African Teens on World Stage Demand Action on Climate Change<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network<\/p>\n\n\n\n NEW YORK (IDN) \u2013 Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has at least two African partners stepping up on the global stage and telling world leaders to \u201cwake up\u201d and recognize the dangers to women and girls of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a speech broadcast as part of the Desmond Tutu International Peace Lecture, Ugandan activist Vanessa Nakate tied climate change to poverty, hunger, disease, conflict and violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n UN Survey Finds COVID-19 Has Enhanced Online Shopping<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n By Jamshed Baruah<\/p>\n\n\n\n GENEVA (IDN) \u2013 \u201cThe COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the shift towards a more digital world. The changes we make now will have lasting effects as the world economy begins to recover,\u201d says Mukhisa Kituyi, Secretary-General of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).<\/p>\n\n\n\n The acceleration of online shopping globally underscores the urgency of ensuring all countries can seize the opportunities offered by digitalization as the world moves from pandemic response to recovery, he adds.\u00a0\u00a0JAPANESE<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0TURKISH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n COVID-19 Highlights the Global Structural Dependence on Exploitable Labour<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Viewpoint by Randall Hansen*<\/p>\n\n\n\n TORONTO (IDN) \u2013 In November 2019, a federal government official visited the University of Toronto\u2019s Munk School and asked its faculty to delineate coming global threats. We spoke of inequality, hunger, climate change, sanitation, and plastic pollution, among others. No one mentioned a microbe; a discussion of the threat of immunity to antibiotics was as close as we got.\u00a0JAPANESE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n