Direct Link to Full 9-Page December 2020 Document:
An-Inclusive-Gender-Response-Approach-to-Migration.pdf (picum.org)
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21 September 2020 - COVID-19 is changing women’s lives in ways that are likely to outlive the pandemic. It is taking a heavy toll on their health, social and economic well-being worldwide.
At the same time, women are at the forefront of the response to the pandemic, making up almost 70 per cent of the health care workforce and accounting for the majority of essential low-skilled, low-paid workers who keep communities running during the health crisis.
Yet, women are remarkably absent from the leadership and expert groups managing COVID-19 and have limited opportunities to voice their concerns and inform the policy response to the pandemic.
Direct Link to Full 164-Page 2020 Publication:
UNFPA_PUB_2020_EN_State_of_World_Population.pdf
DEFINING THE PRACTICES THAT HARM WOMEN & GIRLS & UNDERMINE EQUALITY
When emergency measures and #humanrights restrictions are gender-blind, women end up being harmed the most. ODIHR's new guide helps fill these gaps and prevent further discrimination.
In crisis situations, pre-existing patterns of discrimination, marginalization and vulnerability are exacerbated. Women and men, girls and boys experience the effects of the crisis itself, and of the extraordinary measures taken to counter it, in very different ways. Natural disasters, such as the devastating tsunamis, hurricanes and earthquakes of the past decade, have shown that women are at much higher risk of death from the immediate event, and also that their economic vulnerability increases in the aftermath.2 Distribution of relief aid often fails to consider gender differences, denying women access to key resources.
Direct Link to Full 17-Page 2020 UNICEF Publication:
