Covid Collective Key Issue Guide: Equity, Inclusion and Exclusion of Those Most Effected by the Pandemic

The Covid-19 pandemic exposed and worsened already existing inequalities, increased extreme poverty and food insecurity, led to human rights violations, and negatively affected progress towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (UN, 2022; Rohwerder, 2020). Marginalised and socially excluded groups such as women and girls, people with disabilities, older people, children, young people, informal and migrant workers, refugees and internally displaced persons, racial and ethnic minorities, indigenous peoples, and LGBTQI people, bore the brunt of the crisis (Rohwerder 2020).