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Recommendations into Action Brief COVID-19: Safe Cities and Safe Public Spaces for Women and Girls Format INTRODUCTION The COVID-19 pandemic has caused massive disruptions to daily lives and the operation of businesses and services, especially to health, social services, transport, hospitality, economic development, education, and recreation sectors with various measures in place in countries across different waves of the pandemic including: lockdowns, quarantines, curfews, social distancing, etc. The pandemic has exacerbated violence against women and girls in public and private spaces. Whil...

U.S.-based geographer Brian Jefferson argues in a new book that “smart city” systems tech firms such as IBM have built in New York City and Chicago extend carceral management systems into urban spaces. He shows how “cellular towers, cooling equipment, environmental sensors, fiber-optic cables, local area networks, mobile devices, server rooms, and smart cameras” are engineered to allow governments and private technology firms to supervise entire communities in a manner that increasingly resembles carceral management. The Shawan “Safe City” shows that in less democratic contexts, s...