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COCAP BIWEEKLY: INCIDENTS SURROUNDING COVID-19 November 16 - 30, 2020

2020-12-03

From November 16 - November 30 , 2020 COCAP’s Nepal Peace Monitoring Project (PMP) recorded three incidents related to COVID-19. Majority of incidents were related to issues related to public health services, labour disputes and law and order violence. From November 16 - November 30 , 2020, 44 cases of violence against women were recorded in which 25 victims of sexual assault were below the age of 26. Similarly, seven cases of domestic violence were recorded along with one dowry related dispute and one case of human trafficking.

This bi-weekly report is aimed to inform our readers on the added crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic which has affected everyone’s livelihood and made some group of people even more vulnerable. It also aims to make the readers aware about the issues surrounding the violence against women and girls in the Nepali societies.

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