FACTS: Domestic Violence during – COVID-19 lockdown

Mandatory stay-at-home rules, economic uncertainty, and anxiety caused by the Covid-19 pandemic have led to an increase in domestic violence.

Amid Covid-19, Lockdown has imposed all over the world. Due to this, many people lost their jobs and were forced to live together in the same house for the whole day. Mandatory stay-at-home rules, economic uncertainty, and anxiety caused by the coronavirus pandemic have led to an increase in domestic violence.

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According to the UN women’s unit and UNICEF data, about 1.5 crore women across the world faced domestic violence in the three months of the lockdown.