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Combating Gender-Based Violence in Latin America: Lessons from COVID-19 and the Work Ahead
Soon after COVID-19 began spreading around the world, it became clear that measures intended to contain the coronavirus were exacerbating a second pandemic: one of gender-based violence. Stay-at-home regulations, for many women, carry their own dangers. Globally, according to the United Nations, 60 percent of murders of women are committed by an intimate partner or other family member. In Latin America—a region with some of the highest rates of gender-based violence in the world—governments, international organizations, and civil society have stepped up efforts to prevent and respond to violence as calls to hotlines surge. While most governments have put in place policies to increase protection for women, institutional support for addressing gender-based violence has not been sufficiently prioritized in all. Four months in, what can we learn from these initiatives? What is working and how can we ensure these policies’ effectiveness in a post-quarantine world?
Join the World Bank and the Wilson Center on July 21, from 2:00pm – 3:30pm EST for a discussion of how governments, organizations, and communities in Latin America are combatting and responding to gender-based violence in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Speakers
Ana Elena Badilla
UN Resident Representative, UN Women El Salvador
Veronica Martínez S.
Director of Research Fundación para el Estudio de la Seguridad y Gobernanza, A.C.
Mafoane Odara
Project Coordinator to Combat Violence against Women, Avon Institute
Moderator
Dr. Mary Ellsberg
Executive Director and Founding Director of the Global Women's Institute at the George Washington University
Hosted By
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/combating-...ceid=92659
Soon after COVID-19 began spreading around the world, it became clear that measures intended to contain the coronavirus were exacerbating a second pandemic: one of gender-based violence. Stay-at-home regulations, for many women, carry their own dangers. Globally, according to the United Nations, 60 percent of murders of women are committed by an intimate partner or other family member. In Latin America—a region with some of the highest rates of gender-based violence in the world—governments, international organizations, and civil society have stepped up efforts to prevent and respond to violence as calls to hotlines surge. While most governments have put in place policies to increase protection for women, institutional support for addressing gender-based violence has not been sufficiently prioritized in all. Four months in, what can we learn from these initiatives? What is working and how can we ensure these policies’ effectiveness in a post-quarantine world?
Join the World Bank and the Wilson Center on July 21, from 2:00pm – 3:30pm EST for a discussion of how governments, organizations, and communities in Latin America are combatting and responding to gender-based violence in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Speakers
Ana Elena Badilla
UN Resident Representative, UN Women El Salvador
Veronica Martínez S.
Director of Research Fundación para el Estudio de la Seguridad y Gobernanza, A.C.
Mafoane Odara
Project Coordinator to Combat Violence against Women, Avon Institute
Moderator
Dr. Mary Ellsberg
Executive Director and Founding Director of the Global Women's Institute at the George Washington University
Hosted By
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/combating-...ceid=92659
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