The response to COVID-19 should consider gender-specific experiences and needs since women are in a particularly vulnerable situation. Poverty, extreme poverty and inequality will increase in all countries in Latin America. As women are more precariously employed and account for a larger percentage of informal workers they are, for example, more exposed to the risk of unemployment. Women are also at the forefront of the response, as health professionals, care workers and community volunteers. We know that the burden of unpaid domestic work assumed by women and gender-based violence increase significantly.


Panel:
Michelle Bachelet
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Margot Wallström
Swedish Social Democratic Party Politician and Diplomat
Nadine Gasman
President of Inmujeres, Mexico

Commentator:
Merike Blofield, Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies, GIGA

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