COVID-19 pandemic

=== United Nations ===
{{Main|United Nations response to the COVID-19 pandemic}}
The [[United Nations Conference on Trade and Development]] (UNSC) was criticised for its slow response, especially regarding the UN's [[global ceasefire]], which aimed to open up humanitarian access to conflict zones.<ref name=":22">{{#invoke:cite web ||date=9 April 2020 |title=Global Ceasefire Call Deserves UN Security Council's Full Support |url=https://www.crisisgroup.org/global/global-ceasefire-call-deserves-un-security-councils-full-support |access-date=1 August 2020 |website=Crisis Group}}</ref><ref name="Krm4a">{{#invoke:cite web ||date=25 June 2020 |title=UN tallies action so far to fight COVID-19, and roadmap out of the pandemic |url=https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/06/1067132 |access-date=4 August 2020 |website=UN News}}</ref> The United Nations Security Council was criticized due to the inadequate manner in which it dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic, namely the poor ability to create international collaboration during this crisis.<ref>{{#invoke:cite journal ||last1=Charbonneau |first1=Bruno |title=The COVID-19 test of the United Nations Security Council |journal=International Journal: Canada's Journal of Global Policy Analysis |date=March 2021 |volume=76 |issue=1 |pages=6–16 |doi=10.1177/0020702020986897 |s2cid=233202171 |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0020702020986897 |access-date=5 June 2023 |issn=0020-7020}}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:cite news ||last1=Gladstone |first1=Rick |title=U.N. Security Council 'Missing In Action' in Coronavirus Fight |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/world/americas/coronavirus-united-nations-guterres.html |access-date=5 June 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=2 April 2020}}</ref>

On 23 March 2020, United Nations Secretary-General [[António Guterres|António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres]] appealed for a global [[ceasefire]];<ref name="tFb4N">{{#invoke:cite web || date=23 March 2020|title=Transcript of the Secretary-General's virtual press encounter on the appeal for global ceasefire|url=https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/press-encounter/2020-03-23/transcript-of-the-secretary-generals-virtual-press-encounter-the-appeal-for-global-ceasefire|access-date=1 August 2020|website=United Nations Secretary-General}}</ref><ref name="lzoeV">{{#invoke:cite web || date=23 March 2020|title=COVID-19: UN chief calls for global ceasefire to focus on 'the true fight of our lives'|url=https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/03/1059972|access-date=1 August 2020|website=UN News}}</ref> 172 UN member states and observers signed a non-binding supporting statement in June,<ref name="AGhvz">{{#invoke:cite web || date=24 June 2020|title=170 signatories endorse UN ceasefire appeal during COVID crisis|url=https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/06/1066982|access-date=1 August 2020|website=UN News}}</ref> and the [[UN Security Council]] passed a [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 2532|resolution]] supporting it in July.<ref name="9rN79">{{#invoke:cite web || title=S/RES/2532(2020) – E – S/RES/2532(2020)|url=https://undocs.org/en/S/RES/2532(2020)|access-date=1 August 2020|website=undocs.org}}</ref><ref name="nJTuX">{{#invoke:cite news || date=1 July 2020|title=Stalled Security Council resolution adopted, backing UN's global humanitarian ceasefire call|url=https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/07/1067552|access-date=1 August 2020|website=UN News}}</ref>

On 29 September 2020, Guterres urged the [[International Monetary Fund]] to help certain countries via debt relief and also call for countries to increase contributions to develop vaccines.<ref>{{#invoke:cite news ||title=U.N. chief urges increase in funding for IMF to help pandemic-hit countries |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-un-idUSKBN26K2VK |access-date=5 June 2023 |work=Reuters |date=29 September 2020 }}</ref>