(Reuters) – A “vanishingly small” proportion of COVID-19 funding went to tackling violence against women and girls that spiralled during the pandemic, a United Nations report https://www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2022/06/government-responses-to-covid-19-lessons-on-gender-equality-for-a-world-in-turmoil said on Thursday. The report found that just 0.0002% of $26.7 trillion of donor funding worldwide went towards ending gender-based violence that intensified during the first year of lockdowns, as victims remained trapped at home with their abusers. The U.N. had during early out…