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Inside the #MayorsActNow Campaign
April 22, 2020 - The Global Parliament of Mayors initiated the Corona Crisis: Mayors Act Now Campaign to keep mayors informed and connected during the biggest global challenge of the 21st century, but pandemic preparedness [...]
Mayor Leoluca Orlando (Palermo) asks EU Mayors to support EU petition COVID-19
22 April 2020 - Call from Mayor Leoluca Orlando of Palermo and GPM Executive Committee member: The President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen has recently declared that “we need a Marshall Plan [...]
Joint letter Mayors Amsterdam, Barcelona, Paris and Milan to ask for no austerity as way out of Covid-19 crisis
22 April 2020 - In a joint letter published together with the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, Amsterdam, Femke Halsema, Milan, Giuseppe Sala and Barcelona, Ada Colau; Mayors have asked the European Union to not apply [...]
Redesigning The COVID-19 City
A man wearing a face mask as a preventive measure against the spread of the new coronavirus walks next to commercial buildings in the Raffles Place financial business district in Singapore on April 14. Roslan [...]
Mayor of Bogota, Claudia Lopez how to create a homemade face mask
The Mayor of Bogota, Claudia Lopez, uploaded a video on her social media showing her followers how to create a homemade face mask, using things you will easily find in your house. For [...]
Interview Mayor Aki-Sawyerr about preventive action on Covid-19 in Freetown
With Sierra Leone in the midsts of a three-day lockdown, Freetown Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr took time out to speak to France24. As city authority Mayor Aki-Sawyerr is focused to help the most vulnerable [...]
Amid the pandemic, a sobering lesson. More, not less, international cooperation needed.
By IVO DAALDER CHICAGO TRIBUNE | APR 09, 2020 | 1:21 PM The performance of a new coronavirus vaccine is tested at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, but the finished product remains in production.(Monica Herndon/The Philadelphia Inquirer) For [...]
Montpellier creates a local visor manufacturing unit
The City of Montpellier and Montpellier Mediterranean Metropolis create a local visor manufacturing unit in Cournonsec Faced with the Covid-19 epidemic, Philippe Saurel, Mayor of the City of Montpellier and President of Montpellier [...]
The coronavirus pandemic could be devastating for the world’s migrants
The coronavirus pandemic could be devastating for the world's migrants Syrian White Helmets sanitize the Bab Al-Nour internally displaced persons camp Image: REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi - RC2TRF9PRG3F 06 Apr 2020 Marie McAuliffeHead of Migration Policy Research [...]