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The second NYCCL season built off the successful formula of its first season: six matches played on a bi-weekly schedule at the law offices of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, between three-player teams hailing from eminent firms, banks, and corporations in New York City: Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Debevoise & Plimpton, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Google, JPMorgan Chase, RBC Capital Markets and Two Sigma. The NYC Corporate Chess League had just concluded its second fall season, finishing on a high note with a highly anticipated closing ceremony.

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Her team, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, hosted the first two OTB seasons of the NYC Corporate Chess League, then during lockdown competed in the inaugural FIDE World Corporate Online Team Championships in February, and the Corporate E-Sports Association Global Chess League this spring.īefore the COVID-19 pandemic shut down over-the-board (OTB) play last year, corporate chess was in full swing. originally published a version of this story.New York Corporate Chess League co-organizer FM Alisa Melekhina speaks at the league finale on November 21, 2019.įM Alisa Melekhina discusses the transition of corporate team championships to online play during the COVID-19 pandemic. With your continued support, the agency will do everything in its power to ensure that women and girls there and around the world live with health and dignity-no matter what.

Today, UNFPA is the only organization providing sexual and reproductive health care in Yemen, including care during childbirth. Now, she lives in a shelter where she’s getting the help she needs-one of eight that UNFPA supports, along with 51 women’s and girls’ safe spaces. Thankfully, a neighbor helped Alea escape. I then ran to my father’s house, but he beat me. Like many girls in Yemen and other crises zones, Alea was forced into marriage. Kanem also met 13-year-old Alea,* a survivor of sexual and gender-based violence, rates of which have skyrocketed during the panemic. © UNFPA Yemen Gender-Based Violence in Yemenĭuring her visit to Yemen, Dr. But in Yemen, I witnessed the devastation of malnutrition and hunger, with newborn babies on feeding tubes and mothers weakened by fear and exhaustion,” noted UNFPA Executive Director Dr.

“I’ve been in many maternity wards, and they are usually a place of joy. Women pay the highest price: according to UNFPA, every two hours, a mother in Yemen dies during childbirth. The COVID-19 pandemic and looming famine have made an already desperate situation even worse. Only 20% remaining facilities provide maternal and child health services. The conflict has caused destroyed or shut down half of all health facilities. I pulled her inside a car where a few minutes later she gave birth to a healthy baby boy.”Īfter six years of violent conflict, Shrook Khalid Saeed, a UNFPA midwife in Yemen, is accustomed to delivering babies in a war zone. I found a pregnant woman lying down and crying for help. “Bullets were coming from all the corners of the street. Natalia Kanem looks at a baby that survived a harrowing delivery.

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