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Refugee women and girls are facing a surge of all forms of gender-based violence during the pandemic. Effective and inclusive action is required to respond to this ongoing crisis.
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COVID-19 has provided a convenient cloak for criminal networks, and traffickers have cruelly capitalised on this.
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New bill seeks to criminalise child marriage, revealing the UK’s hypocritical child marriage laws.
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Those already marginalised because of their psychosocial struggles face further harm from unlawful, dangerous, and isolating practices masqueraded as “treatment”.
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