. @LuciaBaca talks on the specific impacts on LGBTQI activists in #Colombia & draws our attention to the increased violence & discrimination during quarantine against marginalised communities with an absence of gov thinking around the need for differential responses #COVID19gender https://twitter.com/prioGPS/status/1265613072804327424

. @JacquiTrue details findings from a recent survey where out of 144 practitioners 56% have no or reduced access to services or populations with huge implications for responding to gender-based violence https://www.monash.edu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/2209496/COVID19-and-WPS-Research-Brief_FINAL.pdf

The issue of lack of funding has been raised by many - "now is a time for donors to come together and collaborate" to ensure the impacts of #COVID19 don't entrench unequal power relations #COVID19gender @JacquiTrue @prioGPS

We have see a failure from governments to use the WPS framework in their response to #COVID - this is a time for all of us to advocate for the relevance of the agenda to respond to all insecurity threats #COVID19gender @prioGPS

Impact on the Balkans from @IngerSkjelsbaek & Ghana from @joana_oseitutu shows us that patriarchal structures & gender inequalities are coming through in this pandemic, & that in both regions there are reported increases in gender-based violence #COVID19gender @prioGPS

With research showing that a background of war violence leads to higher levels of domestic violence @IngerSkjelsbaek speaks to the need for research on the perpetrators of violence during #COVID19 in this context, their histories & the triggers for violence. @prioGPS

@keziehelen says she has seen an increase in gender-based violence in her work - in April, 27 incidents were reported, an increase of 70% from March, early evidence of the surge in domestic violence #COVID19gender

Is #COVID19 a driver of conflict? It mirrors aspects of conflict & there is a global pattern of gender-based violence that speaks to the continuum of violence where we are now seeing commonalities across societies regardless of their fragility @JacquiTrue #COVID19gender

Thank you to everybody that joined us with @prioGPS & to the speakers @USGSRSGPatten, @keziehelen, @LuciaBaca, @joana_oseitutu, @IngerSkjelsbaek, @JacquiTrue & @TLTryggestad.

The next event in the series will be hosted by @GpsMonash June 3 on COVID-19 & Violent Extremism: Gender Perspectives https://monash.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RVI0TD7lRJ-NuClob2DEdg