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Alessandra Guedes is the manager for gender and development research at the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti. Guedes has dedicated more than twenty years of her professional life to promoting children’s and women’s rights and health, including working intensively to end violence against children and against women. Prior to joining UNICEF, Alessandra served as the WHO’s regional advisor for the Americas on family violence prevention (2009-2019) and as the co-chair of the Sexual Violence Research Initiative’s Leadership Council, a role she continues to occupy. Alessandra holds a MSc in public health for developing countries from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a MA in art therapy from the George Washington University.

"We cannot afford to unsee domestic abuse after COVID-19," the authors write. Here women wearing masks take part in a protest against gender violence in Santiago, Chile, on December 6, 2019. The photo is a striking image of women wearing red masks lined up, each person holding a hand over one eye of the person in front of them. REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares
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Violence in Times of Coronavirus—The Ugly Truth

by Amber Peterman, Megan O’Donnell, Karen Devries, Alessandra Guedes

We cannot afford to unsee domestic abuse after COVID-19—we need a world free from violence against women and children

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