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“It’s going to hit the most vulnerable hardest, like everything does.”

“It’s going to hit the most vulnerable hardest, like everything does.”

FromPandemic Planet


“It’s going to hit the most vulnerable hardest, like everything does.”

FromPandemic Planet

ratings:
Length:
34 minutes
Released:
Feb 4, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In this episode Katherine speaks with Daniela Ligiero, executive director and CEO of Together for Girls, a partnership focused on collecting data to raise awareness about the problem of violence towards children and adolescents, with a special focus on preventing sexual violence against girls. During the Covid-19 pandemic young children, particularly girls, have become especially vulnerable to violence, including sexual violence, spending long, unsupervised hours online or alone at home while adults in the household are away working. With health resources in many places diverted to outbreak response, Together for Girls has worked to sustain and improve services to prevent the abuse of children, support survivors of violence, and advocate for young people’s needs during the crisis. Daniela describes recent efforts such as the Brave Movement and Keep Kids Safe, which create networks of sexual violence survivors in the United States and around the world who share their experiences publicly to galvanize political will to develop policies to address these challenges during the pandemic and beyond it.
Released:
Feb 4, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (43)

Pandemic Planet is the new podcast from the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security. Pandemic Planet delves deeply into the global health security challenges facing the world. Through candid interviews with diverse global experts and leaders, Pandemic Planet will help you understand the stark geopolitical, economic, security and societal challenges we face, including the imperative for renewed and high-level U.S. international leadership. We explore bold new ideas and technological options for improving health security for the United States – and the rest of the planet. Pandemic Planet is co-hosted by J. Stephen Morrison, director of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center and Katherine E. Bliss, senior fellow with the CSIS Global Health Policy Center. Our other highly successful podcast series, Coronavirus Crisis Update, will continue, with a focus on what is happening in America.