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Good morning, it is Martin Belam here in London taking over from my colleague Helen Sullivan on the other side of the world. The United Nations has today warned that global efforts to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic are under threat because women are being excluded from critical decision-making roles.
Only 6% of coronavirus task forces, which are responsible for co-ordinating government responses to the deadly virus, have equal numbers of men and women, while 11% have no…
