Moving Beyond the Numbers: What the COVID-19 Pandemic Means for the Safety of Women and Girls | NLM

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Moving Beyond the Numbers: What the COVID-19 Pandemic Means for the Safety of Women and Girls

09/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Published: 9/1/2020. This 10-page report illustrates some of the limitations of the statistics on gender-based violence that have been widely publicized in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, provides additional contextual information to better understand the risks women and girls are facing, and outlines some priority recommendations to governments, policy makers, donors, and key humanitarian and development actors for addressing gender-based violence in the context of COVID-19. (PDF)