IBAHRI Covid-19 Human Rights Monitor Release Date: Friday 21 August 2020
Issue 18, 21/08/2020 IBAHRI Covid-19 Human Rights Monitor Release date: Friday 21 August 2020 1. Gender-based violence and women’s health 2. LGBTQI+ rights 3. Refugee camps and asylum procedures 4. Prisoners and detainees 5. Disability rights 6. Homelessness and precarious living 1 Issue 18, 21/08/2020 1. Gender-based violence and women’s health Overall, economic, social and health impacts of the pandemic are different for men and women. Women, at the heart of care and response efforts underway in being called upon to protect and care for families, children, the elderly and the sick, are disproportionately affected. 1 The pandemic has also worsened situations in conflict-affected countries, including Libya, Palestine, Syria and Yemen. In Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia and Sierra Leone, women were still trying to recover from the effects of the Ebola virus when the coronavirus struck. In MENA, the pandemic is expected to result in the loss of 1.7 million jobs, of which over 700,000 held by women. 2 Jamaica The level of violence against women in Jamaica was already high at 27.8 per cent per cent of ever- partnered women reporting at least one act of physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner in their lifetimes. This has been exacerbated by the pandemic. Further, Covid-19 has had a very specific impact on women’s and men’s livelihoods. According to a recent UN Women analysis of the labour force in Jamaica, 58,387 women compared to 36,316 men work in accommodation and food services, a proxy measure of employment in the tourism sector, one of the sectors most hard hit by the pandemic.
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