In a commentary, RSIS Research Fellow and Singapore’s representative to the ASEAN Women of Peace registry Tamara Nair called for the world to come together in this time of compounding global crisis to not only fight the pandemic, but also preserve our commitments to certain shared beliefs. One of these is the eradication of gender inequality even in the midst of this humanitarian crisis.

Tamara Nair is Research Fellow at the Centre of Non-Traditional Security Studies (NTS Centre) in the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. She is also Singapore’s representative to the ASEAN Women for Peace Registry. This is part of an RSIS Series.