Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 09:19 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. By Faris Hadad-Zervos, World Bank Country Director for Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka Dec 14, Colombo: Niranjala’s (name changed) husband started physically abusing her soon after they got married. When she was about to file for a divorce, the pandemic struck. Confined within the house during lockdowns, she suffered abuse almost daily to the point of being hospitalized. The husband was later arrested. A staggering two out of five women in South Asia have experienced intimate partner violence. And COVID-19 has worsened ...