Round-up: COVID-19

Note: Many references to the pandemic have also been included in regional and thematic postings. You can browse them by following this link.

Opportunity:

Survey: Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on Refugees and Migrants (WHO) [info]
- Available in 37 languages; runs through 31 August 2020.

Blog posts & press:

As Borders are Reopening, What Does It Mean for Migrants? (Blog on the Move, July 2020) [text]

The COVID-19 Burden of Disease on Refugees and Immigrants (Psychology Today Blog, July 2020) [text]

COVID-19 Restrictions Preventing People from Fleeing Violence or Forcing Dangerous Routes, Warns IRC (International Rescue Committee, July 2020) [text]

Covid-19: Redrawn Borders, Redefined Lives – A Report (Refugee Watch Online, July 2020) [text]
- Summary of a recent webinar discussion.

Forced Displacement during COVID-19: A Crisis for Refugees and Host Communities in Developing Countries (Voices: Perspectives on Development, June 2020) [text]

Humanitarian Financing is Failing the COVID-19 Frontlines (CGD Blog, June 2020) [text]

Out of the Spotlight: COVID-19 and the Global South (Just Security Blog, July 2020) [text]

*The World's Mayors Are Calling for Refugees and Migrants to Be Protected Against COVID-19 (Global Citizen, July 2020) [text]
- See also related UNHCR article.

Reports:

"Border Closures: A Pandemic of Symbolic Acts in the Time of COVID-19," Chapter in Vulnerable: The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19 (Univ. of Ottawa Press, July 2020) [open access]
- Scroll to p. 555.

COVID-19 and Border Politics (Transnational Institute, July 2020) [text]
- See also Spanish version.

COVID-19 and the Other One Percent: An Agenda for the Forcibly Displaced Six Months into the Emergency (Refugees International, July 2020) [text]

The Impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) on Forcibly Displaced Persons in Developing Countries (OECD, June 2020) [text]

Impact of COVID-19 on Refugees and Migrants, COVID-19 Global Update, no. 5 (Mixed Migration Centre, June 2020) [text]

Resources:

COVID-19 Law Lab (UNDP, WHO, UNAIDS & Georgetown Univ.) [info]
- A newly-launched "database of laws that countries have implemented in response to the pandemic. It includes state of emergency declarations, quarantine measures, disease surveillance, legal measures relating to mask-wearing, social distancing, and access to medication and vaccines. The database will continue to grow as more countries and themes are added."

Global Monitor of COVID-19's Impact on Democracy and Human Rights (International IDEA) [access]
- "Governments around the world have assembled emergency powers to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, at times undermining human rights and democratic processes. A new online platform launched today will allow policymakers, analysts, journalists and the public to now hold these governments to account." More info in the press release.

Migration and COVID-19 Resource Platform (Lancet Migration) [access]
- "The COVID-19 pandemic reveals the extent of marginalisation migrant & refugee populations face.  We have developed a resource platform to encourage knowledge sharing across different  regions globally and to highlight the  need to include migrants and refugees in the COVID-19 response." See esp. the series of briefs that provide information on the situation for asylum-seekers and migrants in specific countries.

*UPDATED

Related post:
- Round-up: COVID-19 (13 June 2020)