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** COVID-19 Gender Update
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[link removed] the latest updates on COVID-19 and gender equality, visit UN Women's dedicated In Focus pages:
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** TOP PICKS
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Refugee women on the front lines of COVID-19 ([link removed])
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When fathers share the care ([link removed])
Related links for World Refugee Day (20 June):
* Turkish and Syrian women manifest solidarity to respond to COVID-19 ([link removed])
* In the words of Olena Nebeska: “I want everyone to know the importance of their human rights” ([link removed])
** Including widows in the work to “build back better” from COVID-19
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Statement for International Widows Day (23 June) by Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
The effects of the pandemic are exacerbated for women and girls. At the same time, mortality from the virus tends to be higher for men...This represents a devastating human loss, and one that is likely leaving tens of thousands of women newly widowed at just the time when they are cut off from their usual socio-economic and family supports. Read more » ([link removed])
** WHAT OUR LEADERS ARE SAYING
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** Citing ‘weight of history’, senior UN officials issue call to ‘go beyond and do more’ to end racism
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More than twenty senior leaders in the UN have put their names to a statement expressing their outrage at pervasive and systemic racism and highlighting the need to ‘go beyond and do more’ than just offering condemnation. Read more » ([link removed])
** COVID-19 jeopardises progress made towards protecting women and girls from violence and harmful practices
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Joint op-ed by Roberta Clarke, Senior Advisor and Acting Regional Director for UN Women, Eastern and Southern Africa; Justine Coulson, Acting Regional Director for UNFPA East and Southern Africa; and Mohamed M. Fall, Regional Director for UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa. Read more » ([link removed])
** IN THE NEWS HEADLINES
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[link removed] Newsday: The coronavirus pandemic has triggered a whole host of problems – not least a rise in domestic violence. We talk with the UN official whose job it is to tackle the problem ([link removed])
Radio interview with UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka (Interview begins at 9´31")
[link removed]: ([link removed]) La pandemia desnuda la precariedad del trabajo doméstico, que tiene rostro de mujer ([link removed])
Featuring Maria-Noel Vaeza, UN Women Regional Director for the Americas and the Caribbean
** FROM THE FRONT LINE
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Personal protection Women peace mediators become key actors on the front lines of COVID-19 prevention in refugee settlements in Uganda ([link removed])
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Crisis management As Bangladesh battles COVID-19 and the aftermath of Super Cyclone Amphan, women’s organizations lead their communities through recovery ([link removed])
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Leadership Take Five: “Women leaders around the world have demonstrated successful management of the pandemic” ([link removed])
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** ISSUE SPOTLIGHT
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Unpaid care From Where I Stand: “Rural women are now facing an extra burden of child-rearing, housework, and other unpaid care” ([link removed] )
** PUBLICATIONS & RESOURCES
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Gender-sensitive responses to COVID-19 ([link removed])
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New study from the Unstereotype Alliance finds that increased equality for women is essential to a country’s success ([link removed])
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Migrant women and remittances: Exploring the data from selected countries ([link removed])
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Voices of gender equality mechanisms on COVID-19 ([link removed])
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The precarious situation of domestic workers in Latin America and the Caribbean is accentuated by the COVID-19 crisis ([link removed])
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** SOCIAL MEDIA
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** Join our call to #EndRapeInWar
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[link removed] June marks the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict. We need to ensure that prevention measures are in place and a survivor-centered response is part of the greater call for a #globalceasefire during the COVID-19 pandemic. Join UN Women in calling to #endrapeinwar with powerful social media messages that you can download here. ([link removed])
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