According to figures from the U.N., in the 12 months before the crisis, 243 million women and girls aged between 15 and 49 had experienced physical or sexual violence by a partner,
"We need international institutions more than ever before. We need global solidarity. In the context of the virus, a virus anywhere is a virus everywhere ... It means that the WHO will have lesser resources to support the countries that are struggling ... All of that means that the fight against the virus is even more complex and more difficult," she said.
60% of women work in the informal economy worldwide which it, it said, were at greater risk of falling into poverty"So women do not have savings, they do not have insurance. Those who work in the informal sector tend not to have enforceable contracts. So it has set women back in a big way," she told CNBC.
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