General resources & events

Online events

There are a number of online events and webinars on COVID-19 and refugees, including its impact on immigration detention and legal aid providers.

General information about COVID-19

The following are a list of websites:

• World Health Organisation:

  • ‘COVID-19’ General information: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019

  • ‘COVID-19 Events As They Happen’: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/events-as-they-happen

• Centre for Disease Control (USA) COVID-19 General information: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html

• Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Centre: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/

• Imperial College London MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis on COVID-19: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-infectious-disease-analysis/covid-19/

Key websites with COVID-19 resources:

UNHCR RefWorld: COVID-19

UNHCR Live-blog: Refugees in the COVID-19 crisis

International Council of Voluntary Agencies: COVID-19 Resources

Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) [the highest-level humanitarian coordination forum in the UN]: COVID-19 Outbreak Readiness and Response

Global Protection Cluster [a UN network of protection actors in humanitarian crises]: Protection and COVID-19

ACAPS: COVID-19 ACAPS Resources

CIVICUS: Resources for civil society in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic

International Centre for Not for Profit Law (ICNL): Coronavirus and Civic Space

Information about COVID-19 in multiple languages

The following public health information on COVID-19 has been translated into a range of languages.

Note that some of this guidance, depending on its source, makes reference to local / national processes and policies.

• Centre for Disease Control, General advice about coronavirus: https://wwwn.cdc.gov/pubs/other-languages?Sort=Lang%3A%3Aasc