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Gender Dimensions of the COVID-19 ‎Pandemic‎

Ms. Nazia Noory

Volume 3 Issue 3 | Sep 2020

DOI: 10.31841/KJEMS.2021.28

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Abstract

The coronavirus pandemic has dealt a huge blow to the world that affects ‎global ‎developments. Like other pandemics world is not just faced with the ‎greatest global ‎health shock but faced with the multi-dimension of COVID-19 ‎effects. Like elsewhere ‎Afghanistan is also hit strongly by the pandemic as in ‎Afghanistan where there some ‎other crisis was already existed from ongoing ‎armed conflict to the struggles for peace, ‎from lack of services to the limited ‎infrastructure, from the increasing number of ‎unemployment to the high ‎gender inequalities all are the factors which are negatively ‎impacting the ‎economic and social stability of Afghanistan and its population as a whole ‎and ‎female in particular. COVID-19 has also affected female in different ways ‎particularly in ‎education, health and social sectors. Which needs urgent ‎attention to be addressed. ‎

Keywords: ‎ COVID-19, Peace, Education, Pandemic, Afghanistan ‎