{"id":414158,"date":"2020-05-18T21:21:54","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T21:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/audio\/2020\/05\/1064372"},"modified":"2020-05-18T21:21:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T21:21:54","slug":"women-pay-price-of-increased-strains-caused-by-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/05\/18\/women-pay-price-of-increased-strains-caused-by-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Women \u2018pay price\u2019 of increased strains caused by COVID-19 pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"
Somalia is a land facing problems on many fronts, from severe floods to desert locust swarms and terrorist attacks, but there\u2019s an even darker threat, too: rising sexual violence amid the coronavirus crisis.<\/p>\n
After the horrific rape of a young girl last week in the capital Mogadishu, it\u2019s something that the UN wants to help the Government put a stop to more than ever, as Anders Thomsen from the UN Population Fund (UNFPA<\/a>) tells UN News\u2019s Daniel Johnson.<\/p>\n