Content_paragraphs:  On 6 May 2020, the Technical Committee on Gender Equality released a 
  
  statement in which it noted the upsurge in violence against women and girls during the 
  
  COVID-19 outbreak. It quoted civil society sources that had noted a 58 per cent 
  
  increase in incidents of domestic violence in the Greek Cypriot community and a 10 per 
  
  cent increase in calls to helplines in the Turkish Cypriot community between mid-
  
  March and 22 April. The Committee concluded that it was of the “utmost importance 
  
  that the gendered impact of the pandemic as well as of the measures taken to combat it, 
  
  are recognized and addressed”. Several members of the Committee participated in 
  
  informal consultations organized as part of a gender-sensitive socioeconomic impact 
  
  assessment of a settlement carried out by my mission of good offices in cooperation 
  
  with the World Bank, as described in further detail below. Members also attended the 
  
  launch of the outcome of the assessment hosted at my mission of good offices.