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Responding to the immediate impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns on vulnerable women : Cabinet paper, 2 September 2022 Prepared by the Office of the Minister for Women for the COVID-19 Ministerial Group

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Wellington, New Zealand : Manatū Wāhine | Ministry for Women, 2022Description: electronic document (12 pages) ; PDF fileSubject(s): Online resources: Summary: This paper seeks to inform Cabinet of what we learnt about the impacts of the 2020 nationwide COVID-19 lockdown on vulnerable women and makes recommendations on how to best safeguard these women during and in the immediate aftermath of the 2021 nationwide COVID-19 lockdown. This paper recommends Cabinet agree to fund Vote Women $2 million to re-establish the COVID-19 Community Fund to address the immediate impacts of further lockdowns on vulnerable groups of women. Women who we consider vulnerable are those belonging, or perceived to belong, to groups that are in a disadvantaged position or marginalised. The United Nations Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) identified specific vulnerable groups of women that require further research and consideration in Government policies across the world as being: 1) women with disabilities; 2) ethnic minority women; 3) lesbian and bisexual women, and transgender people; 4) women in detention and in prison; 5) women from rural and remote areas; 6) women engaged in prostitution; 7) women who are victims of family and sexual violence; and 8) women victims of trafficking. (paragraph 12). Record #8962
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Cabinet paper, proactively released, 21 December 2022

This paper seeks to inform Cabinet of what we learnt about the impacts of the 2020 nationwide COVID-19 lockdown on vulnerable women and makes recommendations on how to best safeguard these women during and in the immediate aftermath of the 2021 nationwide COVID-19 lockdown. This paper recommends Cabinet agree to fund Vote Women $2 million to re-establish the COVID-19 Community Fund to
address the immediate impacts of further lockdowns on vulnerable groups of women.

Women who we consider vulnerable are those belonging, or perceived to belong, to groups that are in a disadvantaged position or marginalised. The United Nations Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) identified specific vulnerable groups of women that require further research and consideration in Government policies across the world as being: 1) women with disabilities; 2)
ethnic minority women; 3) lesbian and bisexual women, and transgender people; 4) women in detention and in prison; 5) women from rural and remote areas; 6) women
engaged in prostitution; 7) women who are victims of family and sexual violence; and 8) women victims of trafficking. (paragraph 12).

Record #8962