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Pandemic surge in gender violence met with 'vanishingly small' funds, says U.N.

FILE PHOTO: Women gesture in a march to demand justice for the victims of gender violence and femicides after the death of Debanhi Escobar, a 18-year-old law student whose body was found submerged in a water tank inside the grounds of a motel in the northern state of Nuevo Leon, in Mexico City, Mexico April 24, 2022. REUTERS/Quetzalli Nicte-Ha/File Photo

A "vanishingly small" proportion of COVID-19 funding went to tackling violence against women and girls that spiralled during the pandemic, a United Nations report said on Thursday.

The report found that just 0.0002% of $26.7 trillion of donor funding worldwide went towards ending gender-based violence that intensified during the first year of lockdowns, as victims remained trapped at home with their abusers.

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