Mitigating violence against women and young girls during COVID-19 induced lockdown in Nepal: a wake-up call

Nepal, a South Asian country, was in nationwide lockdown for nearly three months in 2020 with partial restrictions still in place. Much worryingly, COVID-19 induced restrictions have confined women and young girls in their home, increasing the risk of domestic violence. The available support system...

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Autores principales: Dahal, Minakshi, Khanal, Pratik, Maharjan, Sajana, Panthi, Bindu, Nepal, Sushil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7503426/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32957999
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12992-020-00616-w
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author Dahal, Minakshi
Khanal, Pratik
Maharjan, Sajana
Panthi, Bindu
Nepal, Sushil
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description Nepal, a South Asian country, was in nationwide lockdown for nearly three months in 2020 with partial restrictions still in place. Much worryingly, COVID-19 induced restrictions have confined women and young girls in their home, increasing the risk of domestic violence. The available support system to respond to violence against women and girls (VAWG) has also been disrupted during this period. The figures of violence against women, and child sexual abuse are increasingly being reported during the lockdown and thereafter. To mitigate this, a response against VAWG should not be a missing agenda. This commentary focuses on the situation of VAWG during COVID-19 induced restrictions in Nepal and offers a way forward for addressing the issue.
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spelling pubmed-75034262020-09-21 Mitigating violence against women and young girls during COVID-19 induced lockdown in Nepal: a wake-up call Dahal, Minakshi Khanal, Pratik Maharjan, Sajana Panthi, Bindu Nepal, Sushil Global Health Commentary Nepal, a South Asian country, was in nationwide lockdown for nearly three months in 2020 with partial restrictions still in place. Much worryingly, COVID-19 induced restrictions have confined women and young girls in their home, increasing the risk of domestic violence. The available support system to respond to violence against women and girls (VAWG) has also been disrupted during this period. The figures of violence against women, and child sexual abuse are increasingly being reported during the lockdown and thereafter. To mitigate this, a response against VAWG should not be a missing agenda. This commentary focuses on the situation of VAWG during COVID-19 induced restrictions in Nepal and offers a way forward for addressing the issue. BioMed Central 2020-09-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7503426/ /pubmed/32957999 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12992-020-00616-w Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Mitigating violence against women and young girls during COVID-19 induced lockdown in Nepal: a wake-up call
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12992-020-00616-w
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