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COVID-19 Pandemic Exacerbates Violence Against Refugee Women and Girls

Posted: 24 Nov 2021 05:22 AM PST

Currently, refugee women and girls are facing three concurrent crises: their ongoing humanitarian crisis, the health crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the invisible crisis of gender-based violence (GBV). COVID-19 has severely worsened various dimensions of inequality for refugee women and girls. A 2020 report found that 73 percent of forcibly displaced women interviewed across […] Related posts: Pandemic of Violence: Protecting Women during COVID-19 The Global Impact of COVID-19 on...

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