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Policy brief : the impact of COVID-19 on women UN Women

Contributor(s): UN Women.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: UN Women, 2020Description: electronic document (21 pages) ; PDF file.Subject(s): COVID-19 | DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | ECONOMIC ASPECTS | HEALTH | HUMAN RIGHTS | INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE | INFOGRAPHIC | SEXUAL VIOLENCE | VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN | WOMEN | YOUNG WOMEN | INTERNATIONALOnline resources: Download brief, PDF, 691 KB | Secretary General's message | Read summary
Contents:
i. Economic impacts -- II. Health impacts -- III. Unpaid care work --IV. Gender-based violence -- V. Impacts in humanitarian and fragile settings and on human rights -- Conclusion
Summary: This policy brief focuses on five issues - economic and health impacts, unpaid care work, gender-based violence and impacts in humanitarian and fragile settings and on human rights - exploring how women and girls’ lives are changing in the face of COVID19, and outlining suggested priority measures to accompany both the immediate response and longer-term recovery efforts. Background: The year 2020, marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action, was intended to be ground-breaking for gender equality. Instead, with the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic even the limited gains made in the past decades are at risk of being rolled back. The pandemic is deepening pre-existing inequalities, exposing vulnerabilities in social, political and economic systems which are in turn amplifying the impacts of the pandemic. (From the document). Record #6688
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Published 9 April 2020

i. Economic impacts -- II. Health impacts -- III. Unpaid care work --IV. Gender-based violence -- V. Impacts in humanitarian and fragile settings and on human rights -- Conclusion

This policy brief focuses on five issues - economic and health impacts, unpaid care work, gender-based violence and impacts in humanitarian and fragile settings and on human rights - exploring how women and girls’ lives are changing in the face of COVID19, and outlining suggested priority measures to accompany both the immediate response and longer-term recovery efforts.

Background: The year 2020, marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action, was intended to be ground-breaking for gender equality. Instead, with the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic even the limited gains made in the past decades are at risk of being rolled back. The pandemic is deepening pre-existing inequalities, exposing vulnerabilities in social, political and economic systems which are in turn amplifying the impacts of the pandemic. (From the document). Record #6688

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