The State of World Population 2020 was released by UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. (Courtesy of UNFPA/-)
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an emergence of another parallel pandemic of violence against women and girls – mainly those who were locked up in their homes with their abusers during lockdown.
“We are living in deeply unsettling times. The pandemic has turned everything upside down, how we live, how we work, how we interact,” said Gita Sen, adjunct professor of global health and population at Harvard University.What’s more important, she added, was the backlash against gender equality and human […]
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