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The Impact of COVID-19 on Gender-based Violence | A UGHE Webinar

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Gender based violence (GBV), caused by unequal power relations between men and women, is a human rights violation that affects more than 30% of girls and women.GBV takes on various forms such as but not limited to child marriage, intimate partner violence and female genital mutilation that reinforce gender inequity. The impact of GBV ranges from immediate to long-term physical, sexual, mental and emotional consequences, and even death in the most extreme circumstances. At the societal level, the World Bank estimates that there is a social and economic cost that negatively impacts a country's GDP by up to 3.7%. Emergency situations such as wars and health crises exacerbate the violence against girls and women. During the COVID-19 pandemic, enforced prevention measures such as quarantine and isolation have reduced women’s mobility resulting in their increased exposure to abusers at home and an increase in teenage pregnancies.

In this webinar, a panel of prominent leaders and experts from different backgrounds set out to explore the effects of COVID-19 on GBV. The panel offers an opportunity to share evidence, promising practices, and lessons learned on the elimination of violence against women and the impact of COVID-19 on GBV, and discusses the implications of gender inequity for female health professionals in the context of pandemics. The session also explores, from a global, regional, and local perspective, what different institutions- private, government, and civil society are doing to strengthen the leadership and advocacy for eliminating GBV during this pandemic and beyond.
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