Intersection of two pandemics | COVID-19 and violence against women

Report

Executive Summary

This report written by Special Rapporteur Dubravka Simonovic, she analyses the intersection between the COVID-19 pandemic and the pandemic of gender-based violence against women. The report focuses on domestic violence, and provides insight on how to create peace within the home, and initiative originally presented by the Secretary-General.

Author(s)

Dubravka Šimonović

Link of Source

https://undocs.org/A/75/144
The intersection between the COVID-19 pandemic, and its lockdown measures, and the pandemic of violence against women, has exposed pre-existing gaps and shortcomings in the prevention of violence against women as a human rights violation that had not been sufficiently addressed by many States even before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic

 

 

 

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