The Dark Side of the Pandemic: Violence against Women

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11 July 2021, the finale of the European Football Championship took place. For Italian supporters it was a joyful evening, for England supports less so; but for victims of domestic violence, it was a miserable night. While the tournament as a whole had already displayed a significant spike in domestic abuse against women in England, earlier studies had shown the rise in abuse following England’s football matches: 26 percent in the case of a win or draw and 38 percent in lost matches.

While the aforementioned statistics are in itself horrifying, violence against women is not only limited to domestic abuse. This type of violence also includes violence coming from the intimate partner, harassment and sexual violence, female genital mutilation, human trafficking and child marriage. Definitions of violence against women can be found in legal instruments like the UN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Belém do Pará Convention, the Istanbul Convention or the Maputo Protocol. These international legal instruments were designed to protect women across the world, however, the pandemic has proven their inability to sufficiently do so. In the course of the pandemic, several reports and released data have shown that violence against women, specifically domestic violence, has been growing since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak. These reports have proven to governments and citizens worldwide that the fight against this type of violence is far from over and, more importantly, these reports have exposed the dark side of the pandemic

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