As COVID-19 spread across the globe, gender-based violence (GBV) experts and women’s rights activists around the world raised the alarm that the pandemic and its ensuing movement restrictions would negatively impact the safety of women and girls. This was evidenced early on by concerning reports from feminist activists and GBV service providers in China, Italy, Spain, and Brazil, amongst others.i From the first week of March, the media regularly highlighted the increased risk of violence faced by women and girls locked into homes with their abusers and the barriers they experienced in trying to access lifesaving services.ii This rapid recognition of the link between COVID-related restrictions and violence against women and girls (VAWG) was echoed within the humanitarian sector.iii At a global level, unprecedented attention was dedicated to highlighting VAWG as the “shadow pandemic”iv of the COVID-19 health crisis. Most prominently, the UN Secretary General made an appeal for “peace in homes around the world” on 6th April, demanding that “women and girls [are put] at the centre of efforts to recover from COVID-19”.