Lockdown And Gender-Based Violence, April 2020


The world is suffering from pandemic diseases COVID-19.  The coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting 210 countries and territories around the world. The situation is rapidly changing. No one can forecast the future and certainty of this pandemic. The medical science is struggling to find out vaccine and treatment of the diseases till the date not tremendous result in hand and proved. Prevention and curative measures are only the options for human at this time.

At the time of this blog developing total active cases are 1,579,356, Among them, 97% are mild cases and 3% are serious or critical (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus). This number is changing each minute and hours based on global updates.

In Nepal, the situation is being serious day by day. Total of 31 cases have identified and 2 cases are recovered, 117 are in isolation out of 8017 tested(https://covid19.mohp.gov.np). If we observed the number of tested, identified and isolation, the situation will be changed in the coming days. Everyone should be more focused on the preventive measures of infection because of limit medical and health care facilities. Another matter is that still there is no proved medical treatment of COVID-19. Our focus and best practice should be more focus on prevention and keep the situation under control. The whole country is in lockdown from 24 March 2020. Emergency services are open and the market is slightly open for food and daily household materials.

Ministry of Health & Population is providing regular updates about the situation. Other respective ministries and concern agencies are broadly sharing the awareness and preventive measures of COVID-19. The villagers who had been living in the cities and neighbour country India as a worker are trying to back their village and facing many challenges to reach the destination due to lockdown and locked transportation services. The central, federal, local government and development agencies and people are providing emergencies supplies and packages to the vulnerable and needy people.
Gender-Based Violence

In the mean, the Gender Base Violence cases are increasing day by day. Most people are living in the villages inside the home without a job and any engagement. In this time there might be the chances of domestic violence, gender-based violence, population growth and food scarcity. As of 3rd week of April 2020. The 8 cases already reported and reported for further investigation and legal punishment. So, in this time and situation concern agencies, educated people should be more responsible to prevent any form of violence. (https://nepalmonitor.org/)(https://www.onlinekhabar.com)

Today, I collected some pieces of news and information from different sources. The data shows that a total of 8 cases already reported in the police. It seems that cases will be under-reporting and hidden in the rural part and village.

Gender-Based Violence Record


In the community still, people are not aware of the different forms of violence and recording and reporting procedure. So, government and development agencies should more focus on disseminating the awareness message against domestic, gender-based violence.

The National Women Commission in Nepal has established a 24-hour toll-free helpline to provide support to survivors of gender-based violence (GBV). If anyone faces GBV, or even witnesses such an incident, they can simply call the number 1145 to receive support for shelter, psycho-social support, child support and legal aid.

Your feedback and comments are highly appreciated.


Comments

  1. Harina SaudApril 19, 2020 at 6:42 AM

    Sharing is also highly appreciated 😊😊

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  2. RabindraApril 22, 2020 at 10:29 PM

    Interested to learn more on types of support provided by any agencies to the survivors

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