(ANSA) - ROME, MARCH 08 - Violence, rape, killings, kidnappings and night raids on homes by the military have created a climate of terror in Burma that has cut women off health care, in full Covid emergency, and from the sources of I earn.
Relegating them, in a word, to darkness again.
This is what can be inferred from a research carried out among 2,200 women from Sirmania, interviewed last December on the telephone throughout the country by the Undp and UnWomen - the UN agencies on development and on women -, one year after the military coup and two years later. of devastating pandemic.
"Regressing Gender Equality in Myanmar: Women Living Under the Pandemic and Military Rule", presented on Women's Day, found that the combination of pandemic and coup have turned back the clock after a decade of undeniable progress.
One-third of the women surveyed said they were afraid of moving into their neighborhoods: "There is a huge difference to what was reported (in a previous survey) in 2019, when only 3.5% of women said they did not feel safe during the day in their community ".
Now, "half of the women interviewed say they are afraid during the day outside the community and over a third even fear in their home at night", reads the presentation on the UNDP website.
One in 10 women have had problems during pregnancy or breastfeeding and have not been able to receive assistance.
And almost 7 out of ten women, the report reads, confess that their income, already severely tested by Covid, collapsed dramatically after the coup.
"All this - said Kanni Wignaraja, director of UNDP for Asia and the Pacific - will have a negative impact on future generations and on the overall prosperity of Burma".
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