Testing, Isolation Centres Shut In States Despite Imminent Covid-19 Third Wave
As the country faces an impending third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, investigations by Daily Trust has shown that many states have shut down their isolation and testing centres. This is happening as the Delta variant of the virus, which is more contagious, is now spreading across states. The federal government at the weekend put […]
Women Falling Behind In India’s COVID-19 Vaccination Drive
Many more men in India have received COVID-19 vaccines than women, government data showed on Tuesday, highlighting gender disparity in the country’s immunisation drive that has also disadvantaged the rural population. India has partly or fully vaccinated about 101 million men, nearly 17% more than women. Men account for 54% of the total number of […]
Coronavirus Fallout Traps More Congolese Girls In Sex Work
When Naomie’s mother asked the teenager to join her as a sex worker in the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo last September, she knew it was a matter of survival for the family. The fallout from the coronavirus pandemic – from rising food prices to a curfew resulting in fewer clients for her […]
Femicides In Argentina Reach 10-year High Under Coronavirus Lockdown
The number of women killed in Argentina has reached a 10-year high under coronavirus lockdown, a leading rights group said on Monday, with more than 50 femicides in less than two months. Three of those women were murdered in just the last four days, according to La Casa del Encuentro, a Buenos Aires-based feminist group […]
Coronavirus Crisis : Women’s Jobs At Risk In Latin America
Women in Latin America are more at risk than men of losing their jobs and not returning to work due to the coronavirus crisis, experts said on Tuesday, calling on governments to adopt measures to assist women in low-paid jobs. Women dominate the low-paid and informal sectors hardest hit by weeks of lockdowns and stay-at-home […]
Saudi Plans To Repatriate Over 11,000 Nigerians
Saudi Arabia has identified about 11,600 Nigerians reportedly stranded in the country, many due to the coronavirus disease, and is making plans to airlift them back home, an official has said. The Nigerian embassy official, who is privy to the development but asked not to be named as he was not authorised to speak to […]
Working Women, And Especially Single Moms, Are Hit Hard By Coronavirus Downturn
Before she was laid off from her bartending job in Charleston, South Carolina, Shana Swain used to spend her nights serving food and mixing Manhattans and Cosmopolitans. Now Swain, 40, spends her evenings having dinner with her girls, age 5 and 8, and studying for her real estate license, which she hopes will provide more […]
Up To 190 000 People Could Die Of COVID-19 In Africa If Not Controlled – WHO
Eighty-three thousand to 190 000 people in Africa could die of COVID-19 and 29 million to 44 million could get infected in the first year of the pandemic if containment measures fail, a new study by the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa finds. The research, which is based on prediction modelling, looks […]
Revenge Porn Soars In Europe’s Coronavirus Lockdown
Revenge porn is surging across Europe under coronavirus lockdowns, with a doubling of cases reported in Britain on Tuesday, while a student campaigner in France has spent hours getting girls’ naked photos removed from the internet. Women’s rights activists said they have witnessed a rise in online posts of intimate images of women and girls, […]
Chile’s Sex Workers Shift Online Amid Virus Lockdown
When the nightclub in which she touted for business in southern Chile was shut down by the authorities as the new coronavirus spread, sex worker Camila Hormazabal was left without access to her sole source of income. The heavily-tattooed 24-year-old had been picking up clients in the downtown bar in Concepcion for four years, making […]
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