'Another pandemic': In Latin America, domestic abuse rises amid lockdown

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By Lucila Sigal, Natalia A. Ramos Miranda, Ana Isabel Martinez and Monica Machicao
,Reuters•April 27, 2020


Lockdowns around Latin America are helping slow the spread of COVID-19, but are having a darker and less-intended consequence: a spike in calls to helplines suggests a rise in domestic abuse, in a region where almost 20 million women and girls suffer sexual and physical violence each year.

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