Women are in a "particularly vulnerable situation," the report said, because their work is more often informal, with few guarantees, leaving them more exposed to the risk of unemployment. Many domestic workers are migrants, or of indigenous or African descent, compounding the discrimination, the agency said. "The burden of unpaid domestic work assumed by women, adolescents and girls, as well as cases of violence against them, are significantly increased," the agency warned. Latin America has more than 369,000 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus and more than 20,000 deaths from COVID-19, according to a Reuters count based on official data. "Likewise, discrimination and racism hinder the effective access of indigenous and Afro-descendant people to health services," the report said.

Source: bd News24 May 12, 2020 19:07 UTC