It is vital that the responses of governments in the Americas to the COVID-19 pandemic take into consideration the specific risks that women and girls in the region face in the current crisis and include differentiated measures to ensure that the pandemic does not increase exisiting inequality and vulnerability in the region, said Amnesty International, Women's Link Worldwide and the International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF/WHR) today. April 2020