The Impact of COVID-19 on Women and Girls

What we know:

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•70% health workers are women

•Women over represented in domestic, low paying work

•Women and girls burdened with care responsibilities

•Quarantine has increased exposure to domestic violence/intimate partner violence and other forms of GBV, including FGM

•More marginalised groups at further risk of harm – migrant workers, domestic workers, women and girls with disabilities

•Human rights violations due to to lack of monitoring and access

•Discrimination and xenophobia

•Overcrowding in displacement settings make response challenging

•Access to health, water, sanitation, hygiene already hampered

•Mobility and access has social and cultural constraints