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Africa: Financial Strain, Lockdowns and Fear of Infection During Disease Outbreaks Magnify Violence Against Women and Girls - New Research: [The Conversation Africa] When the world shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, another crisis quietly grew behind closed doors. Reports from around the globe suggested that violence against women and girls was increasing.… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TSP343 #ViolenceAgainstWomen #ShadowPandemic #GenderBasedViolence #COVID19Impact #WomenEmpowerment
somecanuckchickMar 27, 2024

The Shadow Pandemic...

Globally, even before the COVID-19 pandemic began, 1 in 3 women experienced emotional, verbal, physical, and sexual abuse...

Domestic conflict with an intimate partner that includes physical/emotional abuse, or aggression, coercion, and/or controlling behaviours to pressure, or influence you to do something/anything you do not want to do is wrong.

https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/in-focus/in-focus-gender-equality-in-covid-19-response/violence-against-women-during-covid-19 #UN #shadowpandemic #COVID19

The Shadow Pandemic: Violence against women during COVID-19

One in three women worldwide experience physical or sexual violence mostly by an intimate partner. Violence against women and girls is a human rights violation. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, emerging data and reports from those on the front lines, have shown that all types of violence against women and girls, particularly domestic violence, has intensified.

UN Women – Headquarters