Impact of COVID-19 on Women and Girls Facing Multiple Discrimination
Women and girls facing multiple discrimination are disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, exacerbating existing inequalities and injustices. This global overview sheds light on the diverse challenges and vulnerabilities faced by marginalized groups, emphasizing the need for inclusive responses to address the socio-economic, health, and rights implications of the pandemic.
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How women and girls facing multiple discrimination are How women and girls facing multiple discrimination are impacted by Covid 19 impacted by Covid 19 a global overview a global overview Official Side Event High Level Political Forum 2021 Leave No Woman Behind During the Covid -19 Pandemic 9 July 2021 Sylvia Beales Gelber Director BealesGelber Consult sylvia@bealesgelberconsult.com
Overview Overview Whether we like it or not COVID is a disease of poverty, powerlessness, inequities and injustice - a disease of the disadvantaged - and gets entrenched in the poorest communities. We can only get rid of COVID if we respond together. Dr David Nabarro Special Envoy to the UN Secretary General on COVID-19 The United Nations will continue mobilizing the international community to make vaccines affordable and available for all, to recover better, and to put a special focus on the needs of those who have borne the burden of this crisis on so many levels women, minorities, older persons, persons with disabilities, refugees, migrants and indigenous peoples. The global vaccination campaign represents the greatest moral test of our times. Ant nio Guterres, UN General Secretary
Impacts of COVID 19 Impacts of COVID 19 knowledge and policy responses and policy responses knowledge X ray of social, economic and environmental inequalities Who and where are those most likely to be infected and to die? Impact of curfews and lockdowns on wellbeing, health, socio-economic, environmental and civil rights Who is being vaccinated, where and at what cost? Long term health impact long covid, isolation, bereavement Economic and food insecurity Work issues and social protection
Impacts on left behind populations Impacts on left behind populations Older women and men Persons with disabilities Migrants Refugees, migrants and displaced persons Ethnic minorities Widows Informal workers Youth LGBTQI Increase of violence, poverty, exclusions, scapegoating, health, income and housing inequalities
Summary findings from research with women and girls with disabilities in Africa People with disabilities are relegated to the background. The pandemic simply worsened an already bad situation. 1. Invisibility, stigma and marginalisation exacerbated by age, gender and type of disability 2. Persistent chronic and intergenerational income poverty 3. Exclusion from health and essential services 4. Lack of access to entitlements to social protection 5. Violence, increased by Covid restrictions, often perpetrated by those closest 6. Legal protection, if it exists, often ineffective 7. Education is limited by infrastructural barriers and excessive cost 8. Political participation constrained by cost, infrastructure and attitude 9. Poor data is the norm, a consequence of and driver of invisibility, lack of voice and ongoing human rights abuses You have to fight double; you have to think double; the systems discriminate against you
Challenges exposed by Covid Challenges exposed by Covid SDGS under review in 2021 review in 2021 SDGS under Rising income poverty and social protection gaps (SDG 1) Chronic hunger and food insecurity (SDG 2) Unmet health needs and vaccine inequality (SDG3) Long term unemployment for youth and in work poverty (SDG 8) Urban-rural gap in exclusion and poverty; rising income disparity in and between countries (SDG 10) More waste generation and dumping ( SDG 12) Climate related stress (SDG13) Increasing violence; civil liberties at risk (SDG 16) Financing for developing countries; Data gaps: Partnerships for change (SDG17)
Building transformatively forward conclusions and agenda for change Covid 19 is not an excuse for inaction but the reason to accelerate efforts with ambition urgency and scale Inequality and climate change are the biggest challenges Global citizenship is in our grasp with political will and the right policies Taxation, obligation, solidarity and inclusive data is needed to ensure the human rights of all to Social protection Vaccines for all to all social groups of all ages in all countries without discrimination Universal health and social care Life long education Age, gender and disability inclusive employment Decent housing and WASH Justice for all and action on discrimination Fair and decent humanitarian responses
