Situation Overview & Humanitarian Needs | July – September 2017
Recommended actions and international and national level
Recommended actions at international and national levels
Demographic and Health Surveys, Working Paper
UNAIDS/99.31E (English original, June 1999)
1st revision, April 2000
Country Progress Report January 2008 - December 2009
Conflicts and disasters, including pandemics, affect women and men in all their diversity differently, and women and girls often suffer the most. Crisis-related hardships combine and compound pre-existing disadvantages, for example, they often cause women’s working conditions to worsen while incre...asing their overall workload and care responsibilities. At the same time, crises can give rise to changes that enable women to take up roles that were previously available only to men, and crises can open opportunities to address existing gender-based discrimination and violations of rights.
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