Policy Brief:The Impact of COVID -19 on Women
- Author:
- United Nations
- Publisher:
- United Nations
- Publication Date:
- 10 April 2020
- Tags:
- Africa, Coronavirus, International Organizations and Africa, Sustainable Development, Women and Gender
The year 2020, marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action, was intended to be ground-break-ing for gender equality. Instead, with the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic even the limited gains made in the past decades are at risk of being rolled back. The pandemic is deepening pre-existing inequalities, exposing vulnerabilities in social, political and economic systems which are in turn amplifying the impacts of the pandemic.
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