The UN Secretary-General just released a policy brief on “The Impact of COVID-19 on Women” (attached). You can also find it on this link: www.un.org/en/un-coronavirus-communications-team/put-women-and-girls-centre-efforts-recover-covid-19.
We highly appreciate your help in promoting it in your esteemed outlets and on your websites as you deem fit.
The year 2020, marking the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action, was intended to be ground-breaking 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. Across every sphere, from health to the economy, security to social protection, the impacts of COVID-19 are exacerbated for women and girls simply by virtue of their sex.