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<b style="font-size: 14pt;">T<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON WOMEN – UN SECRETARY-GENERAL POLICY BRIEF</span></b></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(94, 90, 85); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none solid rgb(0, 0, 0);">The year
2020, marking the</span> </span><a href="https://www.unwomen.org/en/get-involved/beijing-plus-25" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 157, 220); border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">twenty-fifth
anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">,
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none solid rgb(0, 0, 0);">was intended to be
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none solid rgb(0, 0, 0);">ground-breaking for gender equality. Instead, with the spread of the</span> </span><a href="https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/in-focus/in-focus-gender-equality-in-covid-19-response" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 157, 220); border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">COVID-19
pandemic</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">,<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none solid rgb(0, 0, 0);"> even the limited
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none solid rgb(0, 0, 0);">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. This policy brief explores
how women and girls’ lives are changing in the face of COVID-19, and outlines suggested priority measures to accompany both the immediate response and longer-term recovery effort.</span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Direct
Link to Full 9-Page April 2020 S-G Policy Brief:<br>
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