The COVID-19 pandemic asks extraordinary action from us, but we might not know how to respond.

On the 9th of April WWSOSA hosted a webinar “COVID-19 and Gender-based Violence: Towards a Religious Response” where faithleader expressed the need for more resources.

On this page we will share links to resources from various organisations – please also share your material with communication@wwsosa.org.za. These are general resources focusing on the faith-based response to COVID-19 as well as material focusing on religion/gender/GBV and COVID 19.

(Posting materials does not mean that WWSOSA endorses all the resources in full or part.)

• Faith-based COVID-19 Resources
  • Focus on Faith, Gender, and GBV in a time of COVID-19
• General COVID-19 Resources
  • General COVID-19 and GBV Resources
• Contacts and Helplines
• Reading Lists – These lists are from various sources and posting does not indicate that WWSOSA endorses or agrees with all positions

Faith-based COVID-19 Resources

World Council of Churches COVID-19 Page

South African Council of Churches

• SACC COVID-19 Page
• SACC: Letter on the Corona Pastoral Plan
• SACC What the church can do – Church Leader Poster
• SACC: How to Conduct Funerals during COVID-19
• SACC: Media Statement on Reopening of churches
• SACC: SACC Churches Norms & Standards for Worship in COVID Time

Brot für die Welt:

• Brot für die Welt: 10 Commandments for Responsible Pastoral Responses to the Corona-Crisis
• Brot für die Welt: Selected List of Resources and Repositories on Faith Based Responses and Pastoral Guidelines on COVID-19

KZN COVID-19 Churches Respond

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• KZN COVID-19 Church Response Theological Truth Detector A tool to help people of faith sift through all the messages about God, COVID-19 and what it all means – to reject those that are not life-giving and use those that truly help us to grow in faith and practical compassion.

Other faith-based resources and resouce collections

Sojourners Magazine: COVID-19 Coverage

WHO: Practical Considerations and Recommendations for Religious Leaders and Faith-Based Communities in the Context of COVID-19

Tearfund: Biblical Resources for COVID-19.

World Vision: Mitigating Stigma and Fear: Towards an Appropriate Christian Response to COVID-19

Faith, Women, and Human Rights: A Global Dialogue on COVID-19. Report by: Katherine Marshall
“On May 14, 2020, a remarkable (and lengthy) “virtual assembly” took place, co-led by the global interfaith organization Religions for Peace (RfP), the United Nations Human Rights Treaty Branch, and the chair of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). The topic was “Confronting COVID-19 from the Prism of Faith, Gender, and Human Rights.” One participant described it as “a dream come true,” bringing together a potentially critical alliance.”

Faith and COVID-19: Resource Repository
This online platform collects and communicates information related to religious actors responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, organizing information so that it can be quickly found and used by development policymakers and practitioners and religious actors who seek to work together in the COVID-19 response. As a living document it is updated on a regular basis; Jointly managed by the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University, the Joint Learning Initiative, and World Faiths Development Dialogue.

MICAH: COVID-19/Coronavirus Information and Resources. Includes theological reflections, devotionals, raeding recommodations, resources, resources for children, training and learning, health institutions, preayers and more.

Humanitarian Disaster Institute: 

• Church Reopening Checklist. 
• Coping and caring for oneself during COVID-19: Practical steps for Pastors and Christian Leaders

Church of England: Coronavirus (COVID-19) liturgy and prayer resources

Liturgy National Day of Prayer June 2020

Anglican Resources

• The Anglican Eucharist in a time of COVID Lockdown
• COVID-19: how can churches respond?
• Anglican Alliance: COVID-19 and mental well-being: caring for ourselves and others

The Faith & Positive Change For Children, Families and Communities initiative aims to strengthen UNICEF’s partnership with Faith-Based Organizations in support of results for children globally.
#FAITH-IN-ACTION GUIDANCE DOCUMENTS 

At this moment of crisis, the following thematic guidance documents have been prepared to guide religious leaders and faith communities on the key issues and actions that they can take in preventing and addressing the diseases and its secondary effects. ​The documents have been prepared based on official technical materials from UNICEF, WHO and IFRC and informed by the existing Faith-Based resources. The first three guidance documents (scroll down from link above)are linked are

• Adapting How We Gather Together, Pray and Practise Rituals: Adaptation of Ceremonies, Burial Practices, Rituals, Hygiene & Handwashing​
• Communicating to End Misinformation, Discrimination and to Instill Hope: Mental & Spiritual Health, Misinformation and Rumours, Stigma & Discrimination ​​
• Helping Those Who Are At Risk: Elderly, Homeless, Migrants, People with Disabilities, Pregnant Women and Children​​

Focus on Faith, Gender, and GBV in a time of COVID-19

WWSOSA Kairos Call

Domestic Abuse and COVID-19: How Churches can respond. Mandy Marshall. A joint resource from the Anglican Consultative Council and the Anglican Alliance

The “Faith in Action for Children” campaign aims to strengthen efforts to keep children safe during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Launched by Arigatou International and supported by the World Council of Churches (WCC)

Rebuilding A Just World: Faith Actors Call for Covid-19 Responses to Tackle Gender Inequalities
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many faith actors are on the frontline. Side by Side are standing together with religious leaders and faith-based actors around the world to advocate to governments and civil society, for urgent responses that protect women’s rights and achieve gender equality. We Will Speak Out SA is a member of the global faith-based coalition for gender-justice, Side by Side. We participated in developing the attached statement on the gendered and intersectional dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A Joint Statement: Gender, Faith and COVID-19

Restored: Being at home with an abusive partner. Resources and suggestions.

FOCUS SA: Selection of resources on COVID-19, HIV and GBV

Side by Side: Gender, Faith and COVID-19 Resources

The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action. Technical Note: Protection of Children During the Coronavirus Pandemic (V.2)

Cultivating Series: A series of woman-focused webinar sessions for women of faith to explore the role of faith and women of faith in sexual and gender based violence. These session were presented by Umanyano Lomama on Thursdays during Women’s Month, 2020

• Preparing the Soil.mp4 
• Sprouting.mp4 
• Budding.mp4  
• Flowering.mp4 

Tearfund: Hand in Hand: Bible Studies to Transform Our Response to Sexual Violence

General COVID-19 Resources

WHO Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Pandemic General Information

WHO Health Emergency Dashboard (COVID-19) Homepage

WHO: Coping With Stress During The 2019-Ncov Outbreak

Home Care for People with Suspected or Confirmed COVID-19

South African Government

Anglican Communion 20201905-da-covid-19-churches

Fetola COVID-19 Resources (updated daily)
Comprehensive list of resources for business (large and small), SMEs and employees

COVID-19 Civil Society Coalition, Gender and GBV Working Group: Guide to Gender-Sensitive Organising during Covid-19 Pandemic (v2)

Wearing a Mask

• Department of Medicine, UCT and GSH: Mask Safety – Recommendations for the Public . What constitutes an effective cloth mask? How should we put it on, and take it off? Professor Marc Mendelson, UCT, gives direction.
• SA Department of Health: Advice on Cloth Masks
• Western Cape Govt: Masks What you need to know
• Western Cape Govt: Use a cloth mask safely 
• WHO: Advice on the use of masks in the context of COVID-19. Interim guidance. 6 April 2020

Messages for Mothers (M4M) is a online platform to keep mothers informed, connected and encouraged using digital channels.Provides physical and mental health resources.

Coping With Covid: A Guide To Managing Mild Covid 19 Disease At Home. Dr Aysha Kola and Dr Waasila Jassat.

General COVID-19 and GBV Resources

UN: Policy Brief: The Impact of COVID-19 on Women. 9 APRIL 2020

​UN Women – Exploring the impact of Covid-19 on women and Girls: https://interactive.unwomen.org/multimedia/explainer/covid19/en/index.html

                   – Shadow Pandemic – Services for women and girl survivors of violence

Genderlinks: Gender and COVID-19 Helpdesk

SA Shelter Movement: 

• Domestic Violence Safety Planning during the time of COVID-19
• A Domestic Violence Safety Plan for COVID-19, including some useful contact numbers

Sonke Gender Justice: An Equity-based Approach to Dealing with the COVID-19 Pandemic. A Document that considers the responsibilities of men in avoiding GBV during Lockdown. 

How To Stop Coronavirus Lockdown Leading To An Upsurge In Violence Against Women

Six Steps For Men To Avoid Domestic Violence

The Communication Initiative Network: Why gender-responsive communication interventions are critical in the battle against COVID-19

Global Union: Recommendations for unions to include women concerns during COVID-19 

Univ: Melbourne & Queen Mary: Intersectional View of Covid 19. Beyond Sex and Gender

Workbook: Conscious COVID-19 Coping Workbook.pdf

CARE + IRC: Gender Analyisis for covid

Jennie Black, chairperson of the Pinetop CPF: Your rights and the responsibilities of the police when you have experienced a gender based violence, rape, domestic violence or assault of any kind.

Fake News and Online Security:

• Pulse: How to end the fake news cycle
• Top 10 Ways to secure your Zoom meeting​

Contacts and Helplines

Lists of professional counsellors to call on or refer people to:

• Important contact details for those addressing Gender-Based Violence and other social challenges during COVID-19 Lockdown 
• How to contact the National Shelter Helpline 
• Black Women Caucus Counselling Service
• Gift of the Givers Counselling Service
• Counsellors for Men to Prevent Gender-based Violence
• Forever Blooming Counseling and Wellness Centre
• Legal Support and Access to Justice during Lockdown
• Crisis of Care: Counselling 101 and Contact number

GBVF complaints line: 

Citizens who are not satisfied with the services rendered by the South African Police Service (SAPS), especially with regard to Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF), are encouraged to lodge complaints.

Complainants can submit a complaint directly, by visiting their local police station’s community service centre, station commander, district/cluster commander’s office or the provincial complaints co-ordinators inspectorate.

Service complaints can also be lodged at the National Service Complaints Call Centre at 080 033 3177 or by email :

• Eastern Cape: 040 608 7078 / complaintsEC@saps.gov.za
• Free State: 051 411 7804 / fs.inspect.nodal@saps.gov.za
• Gauteng: 011 274 7786 / gpcomplaints@saps.gov.za
• KwaZulu-Natal: 031 325 5951/4886 / kzn.complaintscentre@saps.gov.za
• Limpopo: 015 293 7186 / Lim.complaints@saps.gov.za
• Mpumalanga: 013 249 1429/1430/1435 / complaints.mp@saps.gov.za
• Northern Cape: 053 802 7416 / ncprov.complaint.saps@saps.gov.za
• North West: 018 299 7057 / nw.inspect.complaints@saps.gov.za
• Western Cape: 021 409 6535 / wcmi.complaintsnodalpoint@saps.gov.za
• GBV Service Provision during Lockdown (7 April 2020)

COVID-19 Draft Social Sector Directory 31-March-2020 Version-9

Reading Lists 

FEMINIST ANALYSES OF COVID-19 AND THE ECONOMIC, POLITICAL & SOCIAL CONTEXT SURROUNDING IT 

• A very comprehensive list compiled by WIDE + Contains brief blurbs about each article https://wideplus.org/2020/03/26/covid-19-crisis-from-a-feminist-perspective-overview-of-different-articles-published/
• A very comprehensive list compiled by Rosemary Morgan in the U.S.  https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1_QfLS6Z90w_1rPM-jdeKC_lQXTcwA8Z4kF8Z5CerZrk/mobilebasic
• An Activists Covid-19 Resource Pack (including readings and brief descriptions about each reading) by Womin https://womin.org.za/resource-library/an-activist%E2%80%99s-covid-19-resources-pack.html

Podcasts/Teach-ins/Recorded Conversations

• African Feminist and Anti-Capitalist Responses to COVID-19: Labor, Health and Ecological Questions https://open.spotify.com/episode/2O37j0DVAYUIaAmO9Zc9ag
• Movement building in the time of the Corona Virus: A left feminist perspective on 21st Century Racial Capitalism in this moment https://www.pscp.tv/w/1YqKDEwwZnaGV?t=12m28s

Articles

• Feminist resources on the pandemic – Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy https://centreforfeministforeignpolicy.org/feminist-resources-on-the-pandemic
• Call for a Feminist COVID-19 Policy https://feministallianceforrights.org/blog/2020/03/20/action-call-for-a-feminist-covid-19-policy/
• The gendered footprint of COVID19 in India https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/the-gendered-footprint-of-covid19-in-india-63767/
• Social Reproduction and the Pandemic https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/social-reproduction-and-the-pandemic-with-tithi-bhattacharya?utm_source=Dissent+Newsletter&utm_campaign=5f7c17ea71-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_The_First_Democratic_Debates_COPY_0&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a1e9be80de-5f7c17ea71-101879209
• State measures to address COVID-19 must be gender responsive https://www.icj.org/state-measures-to-address-covid-19-must-be-gender-responsive/
• Gender and COVID-19 Working Group

Gender and COVID-19 Resources

To suggest resources to add email Rosemary Morgan, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (rosemary.morgan@jhu.edu)

Gender and COVID-19

• COVID-19: the gendered impacts of the outbreak https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30526-2/fulltext
• Gender and the Coronavirus Outbreak https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/gender-and-coronavirus-outbreak
• The COVID-19 Outbreak and Gender: Key Advocacy Points from Asia and the Pacific https://asiapacific.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2020/03/the-covid-19-outbreak-and-gender
• The Coronavirus Is a Disaster for Feminism: Pandemics affect men and women differently. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/03/feminism-womens-rights-coronavirus-covid19/608302/ 
• Why gender matters in the impact and recovery from Covid-19 https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/why-gender-matters-impact-and-recovery-covid-19 
• COVID-19 is not gender neutral http://www.broadagenda.com.au/home/covid-19-is-not-gender-neutral/ 
• CALL FOR GLOBAL EVIDENCE ON GENDER AND COVID-19 https://www.menshealthforum.org.uk/news/call-global-evidence-gender-and-covid-19 
• Briefing: Covid-19 – Gender and other Equality Issues (Women’s Budget Group) https://wbg.org.uk/blog/briefing-covid-19-and-gender-issues/ 
• Coronavirus: A Look at Gender Differences in Awareness and Actions https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/issue-brief/coronavirus-a-look-at-gender-differences-in-awareness-and-actions/ 
• COVID-19: Can A Health Crisis Become A Breeding Site For Gender Inequality? https://feminisminindia.com/2020/03/24/covid-19-gender-should-matter-india/ 
• Sex, gender and COVID-19: Disaggregated data and health disparities https://blogs.bmj.com/bmjgh/2020/03/24/
• A gender perspective: COVID and Public spaces https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/gender-perspective-covid-public-spaces-lizzette-soria/ 
• Gender “Could be Coronavirus Key” http://www.ipsnews.net/2020/03/gender-coronavirus-key/ 
• Gender equality during COVID-19: 5 ideas for action https://blogs.unicef.org/blog/covid-19-gender-equality-5-actions/.Xn0buFQisvY.twitter 
• Gender differences in patients with COVID-19: Focus on severity and mortality https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.23.20026864v2 
• A comparison study of SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibody between male and female COVID-19 patients: a possible reason underlying different outcome between gender. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.26.20040709v1?rss=1%22 
• UN working to ensure vulnerable groups not left behind in COVID-19 response https://www.un.org/en/un-coronavirus-communications-team/un-working-ensure-vulnerable-groups-not-left-behind-covid-19 
• A Gender Lens for COVID-19  https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/covid19-response-requires-a-gender-lens-by-susan-papp-and-marcy-hersh-2020-03?  
• Media, remember gender in your COVID-19 coverage https://www.mediasupport.org/news/media-remember-gender-in-your-covid-19-coverage/ 
• COVID-19 in the Caribbean region: indications of gendered nature https://blogs.bmj.com/bmjgh/2020/03/29/covid-19-in-the-caribbean-region-early-indications-of-gendered-nature/
• The Gender Question | The Novel Outbreak (podcast with Sarah Hawkes)  https://chinacurrent.com/story/19668/the-gender-question-the-novel-outbreak 
• The Impact of COVID-19 on Gender Equality http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~mdo738/research/COVID19_Gender_March_2020.pdf 
• Planning for prevention: Spotlighting potential gendered implications of COVID-19 in Fiji https://www.individualdeprivationmeasure.org/resources/planning-for-prevention-fiji/ 
• CARE Rapid Gender Analysis COVID-19 Pacific Region https://reliefweb.int/report/world/care-rapid-gender-analysis-covid-19-pacific-region-26-march-2020-version-1 
• CARE Global Rapid Gender Analysis for COVID-19 https://www.rescue.org/report/global-rapid-gender-analysis-covid-19 
• The Impact of COVID-19 on gender equality https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/impact-covid-19-gender-equality-pamela-herrera/ 
• Coronavirus: 9 ways you can support gender equality from your home https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/gender-equality-activism-coronavirus-covid19-pandemic/ 
• Primer on the gendered impacts of COVID-19 https://www.gendereconomy.org/primer-on-the-gendered-impacts-of-covid-19/ 

Pandemic Preparedness and Response

• A Meta-Analysis of the Association between Gender and Protective Behaviors in Response to Respiratory Epidemics and Pandemics https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5074573/ 
• Playing the Long Game: How a Gender Lens Can Mitigate Harm Caused by Pandemics https://www.cgdev.org/blog/playing-long-game-how-gender-lens-can-mitigate-harm-caused-pandemics 
• ‘Gender blind’ coronavirus policies could hinder disease fight https://www.scidev.net/global/gender/news/gender-blind-coronav irus-policies-could-hinder-disease-fight.html 
• COVID-19 crisis response must address gender faultlines http://behindthenumbers.ca/2020/03/20/covid-19-crisis-response-must-address-gender-faultlines/ 
• UN Chief seeks gender responsive strategies on Covid-19 https://www.nation.co.ke/gender/UN-boss-seeks-gender-responsive-strategies/5362750-5501222-7gq04vz/index.html 
• In Focus: Gender equality matters in COVID-19 response https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/in-focus/in-focus-gender-equality-in-covid-19-response 
• Women and COVID-19: Five things governments can do now https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2020/3/news-women-and-covid-19-governments-actions-by-ded-bhatia 
• Checklist for COVID-19 response by UN Women Deputy Executive Director Åsa Regnér https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2020/3/news-checklist-for-covid-19-response-by-ded-regner 
• Pandemics Are Not Gender-Neutral, Gender Analysis Can Improve Response To Disease Outbreaks https://unidir.org/commentary/pandemics-are-not-gender-neutral-gender-analysis-can-improve-response-disease-outbreaks 
• Action: Call for a Feminist COVID-19 Policy http://feministallianceforrights.org/blog/2020/03/20/action-call-for-a-feminist-covid-19-policy/ 
• Protecting women is missing from pandemic management measures in India https://qz.com/india/1826683/indias-approach-to-fighting-coronavirus-lacks-a-gender-lens/ 
• What Do Women and Working Families Need to Face COVID-19? https://msmagazine.com/2020/03/18/what-do-women-and-working-families-need-to-face-covid-19/ 
• Gender Equality and Addressing Gender-based Violence (GBV) and Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Prevention, Protection and Response. https://www.unfpa.org/resources/gender-equality-and-addressing-gender-based-violence-gbv-and-coronavirus-disease-covid-19 
• Five Actions for Gender Equality in the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Response: Technical Note https://www.unicef.org/documents/five-actions-gender-equality-coronavirus-disease-covid-19-response-technical-note 
• Coronavirus: Malaysian men in shopping muddle amid lockdown https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-52040256 
• Statement of Feminists and Women’s Rights Organizations from the Global South and marginalized communities in the Global North https://drive.google.com/file/d/10zH71NOzvo85MfJTTz8yTIsvoR5lU5iQ/view 
• Covid-19 responses: Why feminist leadership matters in a crisis https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/covid-19-responses-why-feminist-leadership-matters-crisis 
• COVID-19 and gender-blind responses: key policies adopted across the UK and EU put many women at risk https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/covid-19-gender/ 
• In Panama, coronavirus lockdown means separating men and women https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/01/world/panama-coronavirus-sex-intl/index.html 
• COVID-19: Laying Down the Groundwork for Recovery with Gender at the Fore https://msmagazine.com/2020/03/31/covid-19-laying-down-the-groundwork-for-recovery-with-gender-at-the-fore/ 
• Global Health Security and Pandemics: COVID-19 and Gender Inequality – Interview with Sophie Harman (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc5clpUoKY8&feature=youtu.be 
• Peru to restrict movement by gender during virus quarantine https://uk.news.yahoo.com/peru-restrict-movement-gender-during-virus-quarantine-231430570.html 
• COVID 19 Decoded: Women in Global Health Finland pre-launch workshop (webinar recording exploring why we need gender lens in response efforts) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgkDDLtRw9s 
• FAMILY-FRIENDLY POLICIES AND OTHER GOOD WORKPLACE PRACTICES IN THE CONTEXT OF COVID-19: Key steps employers can take https://www.unwomen.org/-/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/library/publications/2020/family-friendly-policies-and-other-good-workplace-practices-in-the-context-of-covid-19-en.pdf?la=en&vs=4828 
• Q&A: UN Women envisions a more gender-equal post-pandemic society https://www.devex.com/news/q-a-un-women-envisions-a-more-gender-equal-post-pandemic-society-96929 
• Why WHO needs a feminist economic agenda https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30110-0/fulltext 
• Business Fights Poverty COVID-19 Response Framework https://businessfightspoverty.org/articles/covid-19-response-framework/ 
• Shared responsibility, global solidarity: Responding to the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 https://unsdg.un.org/resources/shared-responsibility-global-solidarity-responding-socio-economic-impacts-covid-19 
• Women’s Needs And Gender Equality In Lebanon’s Covid-19 Response https://arabstates.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2020/03/gender-equality-in-lebanon-covid-19-response 
• Lessons from African Feminists Mobilizing Against COVID-19 https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2020/04/03/african-feminists-mobilizing-covid-19/ 

Intersectional Approaches and COVID

• Beyond sex and gender analysis: an intersectional view of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak and response https://mspgh.unimelb.edu.au/news-and-events/beyond-sex-and-gender-analysis-an-intersectional-view-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-outbreak-and-response 
• An Intersectional Approach to a Pandemic? Gender Data, Disaggregation, and COVID-19 https://data2x.org/an-intersectional-approach-to-a-pandemic-gender-data-disaggregation-and-covid-19/ 
• Webinar – Under the Blacklight: The Intersectional Vulnerabilities that COVID Lays Bare, with Kimberle Crenshaw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsBstnmBTaI&feature=youtu.be 
• An Intersectional Analysis of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Call for Revolution https://www.intersectionalrevolution.org/intersectional-covid-19 
• COVID-19: Using a Racial Justice Lens Now to Transform Our Future https://nonprofitquarterly.org/covid-19-using-a-racial-justice-lens-now-to-transform-our-future/
• How Racial Health Disparities Will Play Out in the Pandemic https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/03/how-racial-health-disparities-will-play-out-in-the-coronavirus-pandemic.html 
• Without safe homes or jobs, Italy’s Roma fear coronavirus impact https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/safe-homes-jobs-italy-roma-fear-coronavirus-impact-200325163604384.html 
• Key Considerations: COVID-19 in Informal Urban Settlements (March 2020) https://www.socialscienceinaction.org/resources/key-considerations-covid-19-informal-urban-settlements-march-2020/ 
• International Matters Podcast with Kimberle Crenshaw (new episodes posted regularly; recent ones have been related to COVID-19) https://aapf.org/all-episodes 
• We need class, race, and gender sensitive policies to fight the COVID-19 crisis http://multiplier-effect.org/we-need-class-race-and-gender-sensitive-policies-to-fight-the-covid-19-crisis/ 
• What a Virologist Thinks You Should Know About CoVid-19: GenPol in Conversation with Nerea Irigoyen https://gen-pol.org/2020/04/what-a-virologist-thinks-you-should-know-about-covid-19-genpol-in-conversation-with-nerea-irigoyen/ 
• Early Data Shows African Americans Have Contracted and Died of Coronavirus at an Alarming Rate https://www.propublica.org/article/early-data-shows-african-americans-have-contracted-and-died-of-coronavirus-at-an-alarming-rate 
• Responding to COVID-19 with a Gender & Race Lens https://thewomensfoundation.org/2020/responding-covid-19-race-gender-lens/ 
• 70 Percent of People Killed in Chicago by the Coronavirus Are Black https://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2020/04/70-percent-of-people-killed-in-chicago-by-the-coronavirus-are-black/ 
• At first, most Philly coronavirus patients were white. New cases are now primarily African Americans https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-coronavirus-race-african-american-cases-rising-20200403.html 

Men and COVID-19

• Why the Coronavirus Seems to Hit Men Harder Than Women https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/20/health/coronavirus-men-women.html#click=https://t.co/FgvKgsTsOx
• The coronavirus is killing far more men than women https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/03/19/coronavirus-kills-more-men-than-women/
• Where Women Are Ahead of Men: Hand Washing https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/us/women-men-hand-washing-coronavirus.html 
• In Italy, Coronavirus Takes a Higher Toll on Men https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/health/coronavirus-italy-men-risk.html 
• Why is coronavirus so much more deadly for men than for women? https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/why-is-coronavirus-so-much-more-deadly-for-men-than-for-women/ar-BB11vVvt 
• Here’s why the coronavirus may be killing more men than women. The US should take note https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/24/health/coronavirus-gender-mortality-intl/index.html 
• Men are much more likely to die from coronavirus – but why? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/26/men-are-much-more-likely-to-die-from-coronavirus-but-why?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Tweet 
• Men are getting sicker, dying more often of covid-19, Spain data shows https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/03/26/men-are-getting-sicker-dying-more-often-covid-19-spain-data-shows/ 
• Men’s Risk From Covid-19 https://www.menshealthforum.org.uk/news/mens-risk-covid-19 
• Why are more men dying of COVID-19? https://globalnews.ca/news/6738088/coronavirus-deaths-men/ 
• Time to change the outdated narrative that masculinity is the principle cause of men’s health problems https://malepsychology.org.uk/2020/03/30/time-to-change-the-outdated-narrative-that-masculinity-is-the-principle-cause-of-mens-health-problems/ 
• Coronavirus: Why do more men die of Covid-19 than women? https://www.france24.com/en/20200331-coronavirus-why-do-more-men-die-of-covid-19-than-women?ref=tw 
• Why being male doubles risk of corona death https://www.mdlinx.com/cardiology/top-medical-news/article/2020/03/30/7635008/ 
• Gender, Masculinity, and COVID-19 https://genderpolicyreport.umn.edu/gender-masculinity-and-covid-19/ 
• All across the United States, the coronavirus is killing more men than women, data show https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/04/coronavirus-men/ 
• Are Men More Susceptible to COVID-19? (podcast) http://johnshopkinssph.libsyn.com/are-men-more-susceptible-to-covid-19 

LGBTQ, Gender Minorities,  and COVID-19

• The Coronavirus (COVID-19): What Trans People Need to Know https://transequality.org/covid19 
•  LGBTQ community may be ‘particularly vulnerable’ to coronavirus pandemic. Here’s why. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/03/18/lgbtq-coronavirus-community-vulnerable-covid-19-pandemic/2863813001/ 
• LGBTQ People Especially at Risk for COVID-19, Say 100+ Organizations https://www.advocate.com/health/2020/3/11/lgbtq-people-especially-risk-covid-19-say-100-organizations 
• Coronavirus Is Exposing How the Health Care System Neglects LGBTQ People https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/akw85b/coronavirus-is-exposing-how-the-health-care-system-neglects-lgbtq-people 
• LGBTQ community uniquely impacted by COVID-19, research shows https://thegrio.com/2020/03/24/lgbtq-community-covid-19-human-rights-campaign/ 
• The Lives and Livelihoods of Many in the LGBTQ Community are at Risk Amidst COVID-19 Crisis https://www.hrc.org/resources/the-lives-and-livelihoods-of-many-in-the-lgbtq-community-are-at-risk-amidst 
• Trans People, Estrogen, and COVID-19 https://planettransgender.com/trans-people-estrogen-and-covid-19/?cn-reloaded=1 
• The Impact of COVID-19 on Gender Minorities https://www.socialworker.com/feature-articles/practice/impact-covid-19-gender-minorities/
• Trans and Gender Diverse People and COVID-19  https://www.aconhealth.org.au/trans_and_gender_diverse_people_and_covid_19 
• A Letter To Our Collective Trans And Gender Diverse Movements In Response To COVID-19 https://www.weareaptn.org/2020/03/28/a-letter-to-our-collective-trans-and-gender-diverse-movements-in-response-to-covid-19/ 
• Isolation and HIV memories hit LGBT+ elderly hard in lockdowns https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-lgbt/isolation-and-hiv-memories-hit-lgbt-elderly-hard-in-lockdowns-idUSKBN21H0BO 
• Transgender legal group releases coronavirus guide https://www.washingtonblade.com/2020/03/29/transgender-legal-group-releases-coronavirus-guide/ 
• Coronavirus, COVID-19, and Considerations for People Living with HIV and LGBTQIA+ People https://fenwayhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/C19MC-9_COVID-19and-LGBTQIA-and-People-Living-with-HIV-Brief_final2_links.pdf 
• The lives and livelihoods of many in the LGBTQ community are at risk admist COVID-19 crisis https://assets2.hrc.org/files/assets/resources/COVID19-IssueBrief-032020-FINAL.pdf
• Uganda charges 20 LGBT+ people with risking spread of coronavirus https://news.yahoo.com/uganda-charges-20-lgbt-people-162116977.html 
• An Update on Gender Affirming Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic https://www.hrc.org/blog/an-update-on-gender-affirming-care-during-the-covid-19-pandemic 
• Coronavirus pandemic a perfect storm for LGBTQ homeless youth https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/coronavirus-pandemic-perfect-storm-lgbtq-homeless-youth-n1176206 
• Trans groups push for urgent government funding to support their communities through the pandemic https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/05/transgender-groups-emergency-coronavirus-fund-letter-gavin-newsom/ 

Women and COVID-19

• How Will COVID-19 Affect Women and Girls in Low- and Middle-Income Countries? https://www.cgdev.org/blog/how-will-covid-19-affect-women-and-girls-low-and-middle-income-countries 
• Coronavirus: Five ways virus upheaval is hitting women in Asia https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-51705199
• Why Women May Face a Greater Risk of Catching Coronavirus https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/us/women-coronavirus-greater-risk.html
• The coronavirus fallout may be worse for women than men. Here’s why https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/03/the-coronavirus-fallout-may-be-worse-for-women-than-men-heres-why/ 
• Why the Coronavirus Outbreak Could Hit Women Hardest https://time.com/5801897/women-affected-covid-19/ 
• Paying attention to women’s needs and leadership will strengthen COVID-19 response https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2020/3/news-womens-needs-and-leadeship-in-covid-19-response 
• Ideas for a Pro-Poor and Pro-Women Approach to COVID-19 https://asia.oxfam.org/latest/blogs/ideas-pro-poor-and-pro-women-approach-covid-19 
• Column: Ease heavy burden of women affected by COVID-19 pandemic https://www.staradvertiser.com/2020/03/17/editorial/island-voices/column-ease-heavy-burden-of-women-affected-by-covid-19-pandemic/ 
• Women Are Bearing the Brunt of Coronavirus Disruption https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-11/coronavirus-will-make-gender-inequality-worse
• As pandemic rages, women and girls face intensified risks https://www.unfpa.org/news/pandemic-rages-women-and-girls-face-intensified-risks 
• Why women will be hardest hit by a coronavirus-driven recession https://www.fastcompany.com/90479204/why-women-will-be-hardest-hit-by-a-coronavirus-driven-recession 
• Checklist for COVID-19 response by UN Women Deputy Executive Director Åsa Regnér https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2020/3/news-checklist-for-covid-19-response-by-ded-regner 
• COVID-19: Women front and centre https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2020/3/statement-ed-phumzile-covid-19-women-front-and-centre 
• COVID-19 en América Latina y el Caribe: cómo incorporar a las mujeres y la igualdad de género en la gestión de la respuesta a la crisis https://lac.unwomen.org/es/digiteca/publicaciones/2020/03/covid-como-incorporar-a-las-mujeres-y-la-igualdad-de-genero-en-la-gestion-de-respuesta 
• COVID-19 Outbreak: Emerging Issues for Women and Girls and Gender- Sensitive Recommendations by UN Women & UNFPA https://www.facebook.com/notes/un-women-kosovo/covid-19-outbreak-emerging-issues-for-women-and-girls-and-gender-sensitive-recom/824188091434062/ 
• Why COVID-19 Response Efforts Need to Consider That Pandemics Hit Women and Girls the Hardest https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/how-covid-19-coronavirus-affects-women-girls/ 
• How Covid-19 Might Change Indian Feminist Narratives For Eternity https://feminisminindia.com/2020/03/26/how-covid-19-might-change-indian-feminist-narratives-for-eternity/ 
• Coronavirus puts women in the frontline https://eige.europa.eu/news/coronavirus-puts-women-frontline 
• How Women Deliver is Responding to COVID-19 https://womendeliver.org/covid-19-response/ 
• Covid-19, VBG y la respuesta humanitaria en Cúcuta https://lasillavacia.com/silla-llena/red-de-las-mujeres/covid-19-vbg-y-la-respuesta-humanitaria-cucuta-72210 
• Engender Briefing: Women and COVID-19 https://www.engender.org.uk/content/publications/Engender-Briefing—Women-and-COVID-19.pdf 
• We can’t forget women as we tell the story of covid-19 https://flipboard.com/topic/sexualhealth/we-can-t-forget-women-as-we-tell-the-story-of-covid-19/f-d48bf29c80%2Fwashingtonpost.com 
• Comment: Women’s vulnerability during the Covid-19 pandemic https://www.thestar.com.my/news/focus/2020/03/29/comment-womens-vulnerability-during-the-covid-19-pandemic#cxrecs_s 
• Keeping up the drumbeat for women’s rights and gender data amid COVID-19 https://data2x.org/keeping-up-the-drumbeat-for-womens-rights-and-gender-data-amid-covid-19/ 
• UNFPA advocates for women, girls suffering unseen impacts of COVID-19 pandemic https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/03/1060512 
• How India’s lockdown has put women at a greater disadvantage https://scroll.in/article/957787/how-indias-lockdown-has-put-women-in-middle-class-homes-at-a-greater-disadvantage 
• Gendering COVID-19: implications for women, peace and security https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/wps/2020/04/01/gendering-covid-19-implications-for-women-peace-and-security/ 
• Opinion: How Is The Pandemic Going To Affect Gender Equality https://www.forbes.com/sites/pragyaagarwaleurope/2020/03/31/how-is-the-pandemic-going-to-affect-gender-equality/#242d988f5dfd
• Will coronavirus make the gender pay gap worse? https://news.trust.org/item/20200331032216-l07tq
• The COVID-19 pandemic could have huge knock-on effects on women’s health, says the UN https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/covid-19-coronavirus-pandemic-hit-women-harder-than-men/ 
• Women at the core of the fight against COVID-19 crisis https://read.oecd-ilibrary.org/view/?ref=127_127000-awfnqj80me&title=Women-at-the-core-of-the-fight-against-COVID-19-crisis 

Including Women in COVID-19 Decision-Making

• Operation 50/50: Women’s Perspectives Saves Lives – List of 90+ women experts working in health security https://www.womeningh.org/operation-50-50 
• Elevating women in the age of coronavirus https://apolitical.co/en/solution_article/elevating-women-in-the-age-of-coronavirus 
• Opinion: Global health security depends on women https://www.devex.com/news/opinion-global-health-security-depends-on-women-96861?
• OPINION: Why we need women’s leadership in the COVID-19 response https://news.trust.org/item/20200401090723-319sb 
• Fighting COVID-19 With One Hand Tied Behind Our Backs? https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/fighting-covid-19-one-hand-tied-behind-our-backs 
• Coronavirus measures will hit women harder than men, charities warn https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-women-trfn/coronavirus-measures-will-hit-women-harder-than-men-charities-warn-idUSKBN21J6NI 
• Women’s leadership and unlocking girls’ talent in the era of the coronavirus pandemic https://www.globalpartnership.org/blog/womens-leadership-and-unlocking-girls-talent-era-coronavirus-pandemic#.XotGV9o2Av4.twitter 

Education

• Covid-19 School Closures Around The World Will Hit Girls Hardest https://plan-international.org/blog/2020/03/covid-19-school-closures-hit-girls-hardest 

Economic Insecurity/Employment

• From nannies to helpers, coronavirus spotlights Asia women’s job insecurity https://news.trust.org/item/20200313122408-e2lvu/ 
• America’s Cleaners: Fighting on the Coronavirus Front Line https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/03/19/us/19reuters-health-coronavirus-usa-cleaners.html?searchResultPosition=1 
• Why women will be hardest hit by a coronavirus-driven recession https://www.fastcompany.com/90479204/why-women-will-be-hardest-hit-by-a-coronavirus-driven-recession 
• Gender economist Katica Roy: If we don’t act fast, women will bear the brunt of the financial crisis caused by coronavirus https://www.nbcnews.com/know-your-value/feature/gender-economist-katica-roy-if-we-don-t-act-fast-ncna1166771 
• ‘Stay Home’ and Work? Implications of COVID-19 and the UK Governmental Response for Self-Employed Women https://isbegen.wordpress.com/2020/03/27/stay-home-and-work/ 
• Most Brown and Black Americans Are Exposing Themselves to Coronavirus for a Paycheck https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xgqpyq/most-brown-and-black-americans-are-exposing-themselves-to-coronavirus-for-a-paycheck 
• Low-paid women in UK at ‘high risk of coronavirus exposure’ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/29/low-paid-women-in-uk-at-high-risk-of-coronavirus-exposure 
• When face-to-face interactions become an occupational hazard: Jobs in the time of COVID-19 https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2020/03/30/when-face-to-face-interactions-become-an-occupational-hazard-jobs-in-the-time-of-covid-19/ 
• Equal Pay Day more important than ever amid COVID-19 https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/490088-equal-pay-day-more-important-than-ever-amid-covid-19 
• Here’s How You Can Help Sex Workers During the COVID-19 Outbreak https://rewire.news/article/2020/03/26/heres-how-you-can-help-sex-workers-during-the-covid-19-outbreak/ 
• COVID-19 lockdown: Rights groups demand immediate social security measures for women https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/covid19-lockdown-rights-groups-demand-immediate-social-security-measures-for-women/1781106
• How the coronavirus widens the gender pay gap https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/31/perspectives/equal-pay-day-coronavirus/index.html 
• Why This Economic Crisis Differs From the Last One for Women https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/us/equal-pay-coronavirus-economic-impact.html 
• How the COVID-19 Crisis Is Hurting Sex Workers https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/03/27/How-COVID-19-Hurting-Sex-Workers/ 
• Economically, women are likely to make three steps backwards in push for equality once the coronavirus effect is over. https://www.nation.co.ke/gender/Covid-19-aggravating-gender-inequalities/5362750-5508776-l85jnt/index.html 
• COVID-19 Highlights the Failure of Neoliberal Capitalism: We Need Feminist Global Solidarity https://apwld.org/covid-19-highlights-the-failure-of-neoliberal-capitalism-we-need-feminist-global-solidarity/?
• COVID-19 requires gender-equal responses to save economies http://www.ipsnews.net/2020/04/covid-19-requires-gender-equal-responses-save-economies
• How Economic Fallout From The Coronavirus May Disproportionately Affect Women https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenniferbarrett/2020/04/02/how-economic-fallout-from-the-coronavirus-may-disproportionately-affect-women/#775a312a836a 

Domestic Violence

• Domestic Violence Cases Surge During COVID-19 Epidemic http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1005253/domestic-violence-cases-surge-during-covid-19-epidemic
• Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Violence against Women and Girls http://www.sddirect.org.uk/media/1881/vawg-helpdesk-284-covid-19-and-vawg.pdf
• WHY WE NEED TO TALK MORE ABOUT THE POTENTIAL FOR COVID -19 TO INCREASE THE RISK OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS http://www.sddirect.org.uk/news/2020/03/why-we-need-to-talk-more-about-the-potential-for-covid-19-to-increase-the-risk-of-violence-against-women-and-girls/ 
• As Cities Around the World Go on Lockdown, Victims of Domestic Violence Look for a Way Out https://time.com/5803887/coronavirus-domestic-violence-victims/ 
• Home Is Not A Safe Place For Everyone https://www.huffpost.com/entry/domestic-violence-coronavirus_n_5e6a6ac1c5b6bd8156f3641b 
• Frequently Asked Questions – COVID-19 and Family Violence  https://www.thelookout.org.au/family-violence-workers/covid-19-and-family-violence 
• What does coronavirus mean for violence against women? https://womensmediacenter.com/news-features/what-does-coronavirus-mean-for-violence-against-women
• How to stop Coronavirus Lockdown Leading to an Upsurge in Violence Against Women https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/how-to-stop-coronavirus-lockdown-leading-to-an-upsurge-in-violence-against-women%EF%BB%BF/ 
• When Home Isn’t Safe: Shelter-in-Place Is Putting Domestic Violence Survivors in a “Dire Situation” https://www.democracynow.org/2020/3/27/domestic_violence_coronavirus_katie_ray_jones
• Confinement : les violences conjugales en hausse, un dispositif d’alerte mis en place dans les pharmacies https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2020/03/27/confinement-un-dispositif-d-alerte-dans-les-pharmacies-pour-les-femmes-violentees_6034583_3224.html 
• Family violence perpetrators using COVID-19 as ‘a form of abuse we have not experienced before’ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-29/coronavirus-family-violence-surge-in-victoria/12098546 
• Coronavirus: Domestic abuse victims ‘still allowed to leave home’ https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52081280 
• Coronavirus (COVID-19) and family violence http://www.dvrcv.org.au/help-advice/coronavirus-covid-19-and-family-violence 
• Women’s Aid comments on the impact of coronavirus on women and children escaping domestic abuse https://www.womensaid.org.uk/womens-aid-comments-on-the-impact-of-coronavirus-on-women-and-children-escaping-domestic-abuse/ 
• Lockdowns around the world bring rise in domestic violence https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/mar/28/lockdowns-world-rise-domestic-violence?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other 
• COVID-19 Fuels Domestic Violence In China https://supchina.com/2020/03/24/covid-19-fuels-domestic-violence-in-china/ 
• Ending violence against women in the context of COVID-19 https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2020/3/ending-violence-against-women-in-the-context-of-covid-19 
• Domestic Violence and Child Abuse Will Rise During Quarantines. So Will Neglect of At-Risk People, Social Workers Say https://www.propublica.org/article/domestic-violence-and-child-abuse-will-rise-during-quarantines-so-will-neglect-at-risk-people-social-workers-say 
• Pandemics and Violence Against Women and Children https://www.cgdev.org/publication/pandemics-and-violence-against-women-and-children 
• Domestic violence reports rise in China amid COVID-19 lockdown https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-domestic-violence-reports-rise-in-china-amid-covid-19-lockdown/ 
• France Announces Plan To Aid Domestic Abuse Victims During Coronavirus Crisis https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/03/31/824720162/france-announces-plan-to-aid-domestic-abuse-victims-during-coronavirus-crisis?
• COVID-19 isolation could create ‘fertile ground for domestic violence’ https://www.euractiv.com/section/coronavirus/news/covid-19-isolation-could-create-fertile-ground-for-domestic-violence/
• Women’s advocates fear an uptick in domestic violence from COVID-19 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/women-s-advocates-fear-an-uptick-in-domestic-violence-from-covid-19-1.5508814
• France Is Putting Domestic Abuse Victims in Hotels During Coronavirus Lockdown https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/y3mj4g/france-is-putting-domestic-abuse-victims-in-hotels-during-coronavirus-lockdown? 
• Women are using code words at pharmacies to escape domestic violence during lockdown https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/02/europe/domestic-violence-coronavirus-lockdown-intl/index.html 
• Domestic Violence and Coronavirus: Hell Behind Closed Doors https://www.thenation.com/article/society/domestic-violence-coronavirus/ 
• Increase in domestic violence feared during virus lockdown https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-domestic-violence-de98b402-51f2-49ec-919c-c70052e29eef.html 
• When home isn’t safe: How coronavirus puts neighbours on front lines of abuse https://globalnews.ca/news/6723582/coronavirus-domestic-abuse/ 
• Domestic violence cases jump 30% during lockdown in France https://www.euronews.com/2020/03/28/domestic-violence-cases-jump-30-during-lockdown-in-france
• Where Can Domestic Violence Victims Turn During Covid-19? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/opinion/covid-domestic-violence.html 
• Gender-Based Violence and COVID-19 – UN chief video message https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=SXxnZKom6sg&feature=emb_logo 
• WHO chief urges stop to gender violence amid ‘horrifying’ global surge in coronavirus figures https://www.ibtimes.sg/who-chief-urges-stop-gender-violence-amid-horrifying-global-surge-coronavirus-figures-42475 
• European countries develop new ways to tackle domestic violence during coronavirus lockdowns https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/european-countries-develop-new-ways-tackle-domestic-violence-during-coronavirus-n1174301 

Domestic Burden/ Care Work

• Women’s domestic burden just got heavier with the coronavirus https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/16/womens-coronavirus-domestic-burden
• Home Schooling responsibilities of Women https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/16/health/homeschooling-during-coronavirus-wellness/index.html
• Protect Caregivers From Coronavirus https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/opinion/protect-caregivers-from-coronavirus.html
• COVID-19 demands that we pay attention to who does the care work – and how we support them https://promundoglobal.org/covid-19-demands-that-we-pay-attention-to-who-does-the-care-work-and-how-we-support-them/ 
• COVID-19 self-isolation a good time for couples to fix housework gender divide, experts say https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-23/coronavirus-isolation-could-strain-relationships-at-home/12068104 
• Coronavirus: Parents of SEN children struggle as schools close https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-52026947 
• Return of the 1950s housewife? How to stop coronavirus lockdown reinforcing sexist gender roles https://theconversation.com/return-of-the-1950s-housewife-how-to-stop-coronavirus-lockdown-reinforcing-sexist-gender-roles-134851 
• Childcare in an Age of Coronavirus https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/03/childcare-in-an-age-of-coronavirus 
• What the Covid-19 lockdown tells us about the gender gap in house-work https://www.forbesindia.com/blog/forbesindiablogs/missrepresent-women-gender-sexuality/what-the-covid-19-lockdown-tells-us-about-the-gender-gap-in-house-work/ 
• ‘I Feel Like I Have Five Jobs’: Moms Navigate the Pandemic https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/parenting/childcare-coronavirus-moms.html
• Social distancing from house helps is exposing the Indian family’s unspoken sexism https://qz.com/india/1823823/with-coronavirus-lockdown-working-indian-women-face-family-sexism/ 
• Pitch in with housework, Mexico tells men at home due to pandemic https://news.trust.org/item/20200327182254-q98wg 

Health Workers

• PES Women: Women are on the front line of the corona-crisis, yet gender-issues are being ignored https://www.pes.eu/en/news-events/news/detail/PES-Women-Women-are-on-the-front-line-of-the-corona-crisis-yet-gender-issues-are-being-ignored/ 
• COVID-19: protecting health-care workers https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30644-9/fulltext
• Needs of female medical workers overlooked in coronavirus fights, advocates say https://www.inkstonenews.com/health/coronavirus-womens-advocates-ship-period-products-center-outbreak/article/3050653 
• Factors Associated With Mental Health Outcomes Among Health Care Workers Exposed to Coronavirus Disease 2019 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2763229
• A Gender Lens on COVID-19: Investing in Nurses and Other Frontline Health Workers to Improve Health Systems https://www.cgdev.org/blog/gender-lens-covid-19-investing-nurses-and-other-frontline-health-workers-improve-health-systems 
• We are learning how much we depend on low-paid workers https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan-o-toole-we-are-learning-how-much-we-rely-on-low-paid-workers-1.4212082?

Sexual and Reproductive Health

• COVID-19: A Gender Lens – Protecting sexual and reproductive health and rights, and promoting gender equality https://www.unfpa.org/resources/covid-19-gender-lens 
• Opinion: How will COVID-19 affect global access to contraceptives — and what can we do about it? https://www.devex.com/news/opinion-how-will-covid-19-affect-global-access-to-contraceptives-and-what-can-we-do-about-it-96745
• The COVID-19 Outbreak: Potential Fallout for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights https://www.guttmacher.org/article/2020/03/covid-19-outbreak-potential-fallout-sexual-and-reproductive-health-and-rights 
• “The babies keep coming”: What the coronavirus pandemic means for people giving birth https://www.vox.com/2020/3/19/21183224/pregnancy-and-coronavirus-birth-covid-19-pregnant 
• SRHR and COVID-19 (website of resources) https://www.actioncanadashr.org/srhr-and-covid-19 
• COVID-19: What implications for sexual and reproductive health and rights globally? https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26410397.2020.1746065 
• COVID-19 and abortion care: why we need remote access to reproductive health services https://blogs.bmj.com/bmjsrh/2020/03/21/covid-19-abortion/ 
• Sexual and Reproductive Health During the COVID-19 Crisis https://iwhc.org/2020/03/sexual-and-reproductive-health-during-the-covid-19-crisis/ 
• Covid-19 and reproductive health: What can we learn from previous epidemics? https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/03/19/covid-19-and-reproductive-health-what-can-we-learn-from-previous-epidemics/ 
• Make Abortion More Available During the Pandemic — Not Less https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/opinion/abortion-law-coronavirus.html?referringSource=articleShare 
• State control over women’s bodies is an unforeseen outcome of the coronavirus crisis https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/29/state-control-womens-bodies-covid-19-crisis?CMP=fb_cif 
• Reproductive rights in the time of COVID-19 http://somatosphere.net/2020/reproductive-rights-in-the-time-of-covid-19.html/  
• Abortion is a human right. A pandemic doesn’t change that https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/28/opinions/covid-19-abortion-access-human-right-sippel-radhakrishnan/index.html 
• Your Questions About Reproductive Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Answered https://rewire.news/article/2020/03/17/your-questions-about-reproductive-health-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-answered/ 
• Coronavirus Threatens an Already Strained Maternal Health System https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/us/coronavirus-pregnancy-maternal-health-system.html 
• Coronavirus and women’s health: Contraception, pregnancy and menopause https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/coronavirus-and-womens-health/84679/ 
• Safeguarding essential care in the time of COVID-19 https://www.fsrh.org/blogs/fsrh-bashh-bhiva-priorities-response-covid19/ 
• COVID-19 & Family Planning http://www.familyplanning2020.org/covid-19 

Pregnancy

• In the race for coronavirus vaccines, don’t leave pregnant women behind  https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/25/coronavirus-vaccine-covid-19-pregnant-women/

• PRIORITY: Pregnancy Coronavirus Outcomes Registry (UCSF Study)  https://priority.ucsf.edu
• What are the risks of COVID-19 infection in pregnant women? https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30365-2/fulltext

• Novel Coronavirus “COVID-19”: Special Considerations for Pregnant Women https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/issue-brief/novel-coronavirus-covid-19-special-considerations-for-pregnant-women/ 
• The Anxiety of Being Pregnant During the Coronavirus Pandemic https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-anxiety-of-being-pregnant-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic-11584457720 
• Novel Coronavirus “COVID-19”: Special Considerations for Pregnant Women https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/issue-brief/novel-coronavirus-covid-19-special-considerations-for-pregnant-women/ 
• As COVID-19 continues to spread, pregnant and breastfeeding women advised to take precautions https://www.unfpa.org/news/covid-19-continues-spread-pregnant-and-breastfeeding-women-advised-take-precautions 
• COVID-19 in Pregnancy https://www.npeu.ox.ac.uk/ukoss/current-surveillance/covid-19-in-pregnancy 
• PMNCH guidance on COVID-19 and women, children and adolescents’ health (compilation of resources) https://www.who.int/pmnch/media/news/2020/guidance-on-COVID-19/en/ 
• Coronavirus Is Forcing Pregnant Women to Make Tough Choices https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-is-forcing-pregnant-women-to-make-tough-choices-11585560601 

Development and Humanitarian Settings

• Gender Implications of Covid-19 Outbreaks in Development and Humanitarian Settings
  • Full report https://reliefweb.int/report/world/gender-implications-covid-19-outbreaks-development-and-humanitarian-settings 
  • Executive Summary https://www.care-international.org/files/files/Gendered_Implications_of_COVID-19-Executive_Summary.pdf 
• Women in Bangladesh promote hygiene in refugee camps amid coronavirus fears https://news.trust.org/item/20200311121342-ncyuh/ 
• ‘Wash Our Hands? Some People Can’t Wash Their Kids for a Week.’ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/world/middleeast/syria-coronavirus-idlib-tents.html 
• Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in complex humanitarian crises https://equityhealthj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12939-020-01162-y 
• Conflict, Development, and Covid-19 Resources (compilation of resources) http://www.politicalsettlements.org/2020/03/25/conflict-development-and-covid-19-resources/ 
• Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom – COVID-19 resources (compilation of resources) https://www.wilpf.org/category/covid-19/ 

Mental Health

• Briefing Note on Addressing Mental Health and Psychosocial Aspects of COVID-19 Outbreak – IASC https://www.mhinnovation.net/resources/addressing-mental-health-and-psychosocial-during-covid-19-outbreak 
• ‘Cabin fever’: Australia must prepare for the social and psychological impacts of a coronavirus lockdown https://www.standard.net.au/story/6677667/cabin-fever-australia-must-prepare-for-the-social-and-psychological-impacts-of-a-coronavirus-lockdown/ 

Protection of Children and COVID-19

• Protection of Children during the COVID-19 Pandemic https://alliancecpha.org/en/COVD19

Clinical Trials

• Coronavirus Treatment Developed By Gilead Sciences Granted “Rare Disease” Status, Potentially Limiting Affordability https://theintercept.com/2020/03/23/gilead-sciences-coronavirus-treatment-orphan-drug-status/ 
• Considerations and guidance in designing equity-relevant clinical trials  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5460332/
• Gilead Withdraws Request for Special Orphan Status on Experimental Virus Treatment https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/health/gilead-coronavirus-orphan-drug.html?searchResultPosition=1
• Ethics of Conducting Clinical Research in an Outbreak Setting https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-virology-013120-013123 
• Applying an equity lens to interventions: using PROGRESS ensures consideration of socially stratifying factors to illuminate inequities in health. Journal of clinical epidemiology https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24189091 
• Does Covid-19 Hit Women and Men Differently? U.S. Isn’t Keeping Track https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/us/coronavirus-male-female-data-bias.html 

Sex Disaggregated Data

• COVID-19 situation update for the WHO European Region http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/health-emergencies/coronavirus-covid-19/weekly-surveillance-report 
• Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/ 
• Epidemia COVID-19  (In Italian) https://www.epicentro.iss.it/coronavirus/bollettino/Bollettino%20sorveglianza%20inegrata%20COVID-19_16%20marzo%202020.pdf [epicentro.iss.it] 
•  ICNARC report on COVID-19 in critical care https://www.icnarc.org/DataServices/Attachments/Download/a9875849-f16c-ea11-9124-00505601089b.
• Spain (in Spanish) https://www.mscbs.gob.es/profesionales/saludPublica/ccayes/alertasActual/nCov-China/situacionActual.htm 
• Sex, gender and COVID-19: Disaggregated data and health disparities https://blogs.bmj.com/bmjgh/2020/03/24/sex-gender-and-covid-19-disaggregated-data-and-health-disparities/ 
• Sex, gender and COVID-19 (Live data tracker) https://globalhealth5050.org/covid19/ 
• Which occupations expose workers to COVID-19 most? https://autonomy.work/portfolio/jari/ 
• Covid-19 worldwide: we need precise data by age group and sex urgently https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1366 
• Does Covid-19 Hit Women and Men Differently? U.S. Isn’t Keeping Track https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/us/coronavirus-male-female-data-bias.html 

Resource Compilations – gender and COVID

• COVID-19, gender and data: resources and reporting https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/covid-19-gender-data-resources-sarah-boyd/ 
• Data2x: Gender and Data Resources Related to COVID-19  https://data2x.org/resource-center/gender-and-data-resources-related-to-covid-19/ 
• COVID-19, Gender, and Sexual and Reproductive Health Digest Sign-Up Form. The Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health has created a digest of current news items focused on gender- and SRHR-related issues during the COVID-19 pandemic. To sign up: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdWkUi2U8aD6mVZ3Y2TQYEfQydQu-kBxBT_wHvdYrWtFnbhoQ/viewform 
• PMNCH guidance on COVID-19 and women, children and adolescents’ health https://www.who.int/pmnch/media/news/2020/guidance-on-COVID-19/en/ 

• Feminist Resources on the Pandemic https://centreforfeministforeignpolicy.org/feminist-resources-on-the-pandemic 
• Conflict, Development, and Covid-19 Resources http://www.politicalsettlements.org/2020/03/25/conflict-development-and-covid-19-resources/ 
• Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom – COVID-19 resources https://www.wilpf.org/category/covid-19/ 
• Resources on COVID and Gender (in French, English and Spanish) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f12hJkAs4gt-8fHc0jQAebVjxAm9WKKy5Q9bDM5cWfE/edit 
• Utilizing evidence-based research to incorporate a gendered lens for the COVID-19 pandemic https://gap.hks.harvard.edu/gap-covid19 

General Resources

• Gender Based Violence AoR https://gbvaor.net/thematic-areas
• Coronavirus in the Middle East: A look at COVID-19 in seven countries, some fragile or failed, which illustrates many of the problems the region faces https://www.cgdev.org/blog/how-will-covid-19-affect-women-and-girls-low-and-middle-income-countries 
• Gender_One Health and Infectious Disease Training Module- Facilitator Guide + more https://ohcea.org/index.php
• COVID-19: How to include marginalized and vulnerable people in risk communication and community engagement https://www.unwomen.org/-/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/news%20and%20events/stories/2020/covid-19_communityengagement_130320.pdf
• Centre for Gender and Disaster  https://www.ucl.ac.uk/risk-disaster-reduction/research/centre-gender-and-disaster 
• Addressing sex and gender in epidemic-prone infectious diseases https://www.who.int/csr/resources/publications/SexGenderInfectDis.pdf 
• Taking sex and gender into account in emerging infectious disease programmes: an analytical framework https://iris.wpro.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665.1/7977/9789290615323_eng.pdf 
• Resources on Ethics and COVID https://ethicsresource.ringsgenderresearch.org/covid-19-resources/ 
• COVID-19 Ethics and Policy Insights and Resources https://bioethics.jhu.edu/research-and-outreach/covid-19-bioethics-expert-insights/ 

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