UN expert calls for urgent action to end  ‘pandemic of femicide and violence against women’ 

COVID-19 is overshadowing what has become a “pandemic of femicide” and related gender-based violence against women and girls, said independent UN human rights expert Dubravka Šimonović on Monday, calling for the universal establishment of national initiatives to monitor and prevent such killings.  
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news