Violence against women and children increased in Kyrgyzstan during pandemic

AKIPRESS.COM - The number of cases of violence against women and children increased in Kyrgyzstan during the COVID-19 pandemic, the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations reports. From March 22 to November 26, the 112 emergency number received 340 calls on domestic and gender-based violence.
323 of those calls were related to women, 16 to children and 1 to men, the statement said.
In the same period of 2019 there were 275 such calls, the number of calls increased by 24% in 2020.
During the state of emergency from March 25 to May 10 in Kyrgyzstan, the number of calls reached 84 against 35 calls in 2019.