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WHO Gives Advice on Handling Mental Health Toll from the Coronavirus
March 11, 2020
Acknowledging that the coronavirus is causing stress in the global population, the World Heath Organization (“WHO”) has published mental health tips that include specific advice for health-care workers, caretakers of children or older adults, and people in isolation.
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IMF Urges Policymakers to Introduce Measures to Counter Outbreak
March 11, 2020
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged policymakers across the globe to introduce targeted fiscal, monetary, and financial market measures aimed at helping businesses and households survive the coronavirus outbreak.
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Opinio Juris: Facebook Oversight Board Should Proceed with Caution (Part II)
March 06, 2020
Writing in Opinio Juris, two international law experts concern that Facebook's planned Oversight Board could become one of the world's most powerful human rights arbiters, with "the ability to impose sanctions and control the practical development of key elements of freedom of opinion and expression, privacy, and hate speech."
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Opinio Juris: Facebook Oversight Board Should Proceed with Caution (Part I)
March 06, 2020
Writing in Opinio Juris, two international law experts detail their concern that Facebook's planned Oversight Board could become one of the world's most powerful human rights arbiters, with "the ability to impose sanctions and control the practical development of key elements of freedom of opinion and expression, privacy, and hate speech."
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IMF Policy Paper Highlights Demographic Headwinds in Central and Eastern Europe
March 04, 2020
According to a July 2019 report of the International Monetary Fund (“IMF”) highlighted in a post to the IMF’s Finance & Development blog, the populations of Central and Eastern European countries—with the exception of Turkey—are expected to decrease significantly over the next 30 years, driven by low or negative net birth rates and outward migration, changes that will have significant implications for growth, living standards and fiscal sustainability.