Women and girls are exposed to violence, harassment in a situation of limited movement and uncertain income.
COMMENT | Earlier this week, Dr David Nabarro from the World Health Organisation appealed to world leaders to avoid using lockdowns as the primary method in their battles against Covid-19. According to him, lockdowns have “one consequence that you must never ever belittle and that is making poor people an awful lot poorer”.While the impacts of lockdowns are extremely punishing towards individuals from the lower-income group, a lockdown does more than just that.
Women who served either as essential or informal workers, such as doctors, nurses, and street vendors are all at heightened risk of violence as they navigate deserted public spaces and transportation services under lockdown. Women who are trapped at home, on the other hand, are now either at an increased risk of domestic violence or subjected to an increased level of unpaid domestic workload.
The inevitable economic impacts that trail behind lockdowns are also likely to expose girls and adolescent girls to...
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