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Why data will play a crucial role in fighting violence against women and children during COVID-19
With violence against women and children escalating during the pandemic, there is a need for relevant insights to build a focus agenda to combat these incidents and offer relevant support.
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While the world struggles to cope with COVID-19, another pandemic has been raging in homes across the world.
The Shadow Pandemic is the term being used to describe the significant increase in
domestic violence against women and children across the globe.
While data from UN Women shows that calls to helplines reporting violence at the hands of an intimate partner increased five-fold in some countries during the pandemic, the National Commission for Women(NCW) in India said that it had
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Thirteen-year-old Kumuduni Perera (not her real name) was found outside the Suvasetha orphanage in Panadura town, Kalutara District, when she was just two months old. The authorities from the orphanage believe Kumuduni was left at the entrance early one morning by one of her relatives who has not visited her since. Raised in the orphanage, Kumuduni says that some day she hopes to find her parents.
In Sri Lanka today institutional care is the fate of many children who have been abandoned by their parents. According to UNICEF, out of over 21,000 children in orphanages in Sri Lanka, one or both parents of over 19,000 of them are still alive.