Beyond the Shadow Pandemic: Protecting a Generation of Girls from Gender-based Violence through COVID-19 to Recovery
Summary
COVID-19 is exposing and exacerbating the existing inequalities that put girls at increased risk of gender-based violence (GBV). This policy brief includes concrete recommendations for UN actors, donors, national governments, humanitarian actors, and the media to ensure that these risks are prevented, mitigated against, and responded to as an urgent priority through COVID-19 to recovery.
Citation
Archambeault, Leslie. “Beyond the Shadow Pandemic: Protecting a Generation of Girls from Gender-based Violence through COVID-19 to Recovery.” Save the Children. 2020.
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