The COVID-19 pandemic exposed and exacerbated existing inequalities within countries and across geographies. It reminded us how the world and its people are interconnected. Gender-based violence (GBV), which is an expression of gender inequality and toxic masculinity, is another pandemic that exists in all societies at varying degrees of prevalence and severity.1 It requires the same effort and attention that governments globally have given to COVID-19. With half the world under lockdown as governments’ response to COVID-19, GBV increased significantly (UN Women, 2020a). The increase was a reminder of the need to have contingent mitigating mechanism to protect the marginalized, women and girls, against a co-existing pandemic, GBV. The intersection of marginalization and discrimination made certain groups of women more susceptible to GBV and COVID-19 pandemics. These intersecting social identities of vulnerability need equal attention in order to eradicate inequality (Simonovic, 2020).

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基于性别的暴力，与 COVID-19 的双重流行病


COVID-19 大流行暴露并加剧了国家内部和跨地区现有的不平等现象。它提醒我们世界及其人民是如何相互联系的。基于性别的暴力 (GBV) 是性别不平等和有毒男子气概的表现，是所有社会中都存在的另一种流行病，其流行程度和严重程度各不相同1。它需要全球各国政府对新冠病毒给予同样的努力和关注。 -19。由于政府对 COVID-19 的反应，世界一半地区处于封锁状态，GBV 显着增加（联合国妇女署，2020a）。这一增长提醒人们需要建立应急缓解机制来保护边缘化群体、妇女和女童免受并存的流行病 GBV 的影响。边缘化和歧视的交叉使得某些女性群体更容易受到 GBV 和 COVID-19 流行病的影响。为了消除不平等，这些相互交叉的社会脆弱性需要得到同等关注（Simonovic，2020）。