gender parity, but violence against women remains a significant problem in the country. As the COVID-19 pandemic has … exacerbated the problem of gender-based violence, women's labor force participation rate reduced by 10 percentage points as well …

The law in Saint Lucia provides for the same legal status and rights for women as for men, requires equal pay for equal … work, and provides equal treatment of men and women for family property, nationality, and inheritance. Its economy is …. Economic vulnerabilities in St. Lucia are felt more keenly by women, with 42.3 percent of poor households being female headed …

In Brazil, violence against women and girls (VAWG), which is a manifestation of gender-based violence (GBV), is a major … end violence against women, including health, social assistance, public security, and justice services, were stalled …

women's economic empowerment. The pandemic has only intensified these challenges, with women facing greater financial stress …

rates of violent deaths of women in the world, by 2021, there were reported 318 violent deaths of women. Honduras is both a … source and transit country for human trafficking, with women being the most affected by it. The COVID-19 pandemic has …

El Salvador has a long history of political and social challenges, including a 12-year civil war that ended in 1992 …

implications for women's physical and emotional health. Survivors were more likely to have suicidal thoughts and to use … recreational drugs. The Covid-19 pandemic has intensified intimate partner violence (IPV), with a higher percentage of women …

. Guatemala has one of the highest rates of femicide in the world, with violent deaths of women increasing from 1.3 per 100 …,000 women in 2020 to 1.6 per 100,000 women in 2021, resulting in 527 femicides reported in 2021 and 534 in 2022, and 69 … adolescent girls, indigenous women, those who have experienced adolescent pregnancies, early unions or marriages, women and girls …

market in Grenada is reflective of the global situation where unemployment is higher for women than men, and female … participation is lower. Available data also shows that the majority of business- related loans go to men, and where women access … such loans, they do so in collaboration with men, rather than on their own. Together these indicators suggest that women …

world, men are more active in the labor force than women. The labor force participation rate for men was 70.6 percent …, compared to 59.5 per cent for women, and unemployment for women was 19.5 percent, versus 15 percent for men. The adolescent … key indicators of the status of women such as those for maternal and child health, contraceptive prevalence, and unmet …