GBV GLANCE DURING THE PANDEMIC SITUATION OF LOCKDOWN
GBV GLANCE DURING THE PANDEMIC SITUATION OF LOCKDOWN The government of Nepal issued lockdown notice on 24th March has been extended till 6th May 2020. All regular business, industries have been shout down because of lockdown. The total number of COVID-19 has reached 82. Among them16 cases have been recovered and no death has been recorded out of total tested RT-PCR 13,850 & RTD 52,227. (Source, https://covid19.mohp.gov.np/#/ ) In the other hand, different news source and updated data of Nepalmonitor shows the total number of gender-based violence incidents have been reached 139 between 1st March to 5 May 2020. Those are the only recorded and reported cases.( https://nepalmonitor.org ) In this particular situation of lockdown, there might be under-reporting cases in rural areas. If we looked at the different segment of the column shows that Gender-Based Violence incidents have been recorded more during the lockdown period. (GBV is between march - 5 May 202