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20.4.2020

Not everyone has the privilege to wash the hands: Covid–19 and unequal access to water in Latin America

By Anna Heikkinen Water has become a vital weapon in the battle against coronavirus. Since the prorogation of Covid-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced “washing your hands frequently” as a principal protective measure to slow down the transmission. Unicef further instructed to wash the hands throughout under running water with soap for at least […]

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We are a research group at the University of Eastern Finland, focusing on a variety of issues dealing with the relations and interplay of society and the environment in Latin America from the perspectives of environmental politics, human geography, and sociology.

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