Rebuilding for resilience: Reasons for the rise of pandemic perpetrated domestic violence incidents in the world during Covid-19

This paper intends to identify the links between Covid-19 and domestic violence and expose the potential reasons behind this spike through the systemic review and meta-analysis (PRISMA) framework.Covid-19has posed several unique risks to women’s physical, social, and economic security. The lockdowns and movement restrictions imposed by countries around the world helped to decrease the infection rate of Covid-19, but data suggests that domestic abuse was like an opportunistic infection that flourished in the conditions created by the pandemic. Although home confinement due to the Covid-19pandemic was a necessary measure of protection against the propagation of the virus, itled to social, psychological, and economical consequences. Women were the major victim of this violence and abuse as they had to bear the increase in tensions in households, increased perpetrator’s risk factors for violence, economic burden, and survivors’ limited access to support services available pre lockdown. Pandemic is a threat to the decade-long progress in gender equality and women empowerment. It is a crucial time to address this problem and prevent the reversal of gender equality.