Online disinformation campaigns have ensued, with #CoronaJihad trending on Twitter and the religious gathering being labelled as ‘corona terrorism’. 30. In Assam, members of Foreigners’ Tribunals who have made donations towards state COVID-19 relief efforts, have requested that the funds not be disbursed to those who contracted the virus at the Tablighi Jamaat event, using words like “jehadi” and “jahil” to describe such people. 31. The government has also targeted the Rohingya, singling them out for screening. Given failed attempts to deport Rohingya refugees in 2019, there are serious concerns around this development. The exclusion of Rohingya and other refugees from accessing government COVID19 relief measures has made survival difficult. Rohingya who live in squalid urban slums are also highly vulnerable to the virus. Rohingya in camps risk starvation as they struggle over access to food and water. The state-wide lockdown has hampered an already slow stream of resources.33 32. Persons rendered stateless by the intersection of sex and religious discrimination, experience exacerbated vulnerability and rights violations. COVID-19 economic relief in many countries, including Jordan and Malaysia, is not available to non-citizen family members. Tragically, genderbased violence has spiked under lockdown, with gender-discriminatory nationality laws adding to the hurdles faced by women trying to extract themselves from abusive relationships at this time.34 33 India: Rohingya in Pandemic Red Zone Face Starvation, Anadolu Agency, Apr. 2020. Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights, “Gender-Discriminatory Nationality Laws Add to Families’ Suffering during COVID-19 Pandemic” available at: https://equalnationalityrights.org/reports/document/1295-gender-discriminatorynationality-laws-add-to-families-suffering-during-covid-19-pandemic?highlight=WyJjb3ZpZCJd. For example, though a Malaysian mother wants to leave her abusive partner and the heightened COVID threat she faces in her spouse’s country, her children lack Malaysian citizenship so she is remaining overseas with her abusive spouse. See Foreign Spouses Support Group, “Challenges faced by Malaysian women with children born overseas during the Covid-19 crisis,” available at https://equalnationalityrights.org/news/105-challenges-faced-by-malaysian-women-with-children-born-overseas-during-thecovid-19-crisis; Pre-COVID, a Jordanian mother was forced to provide for her entire family, as her husband and children lack citizenship and therefore access to formal employment due to the country’s discriminatory nationality law. Now she is suffering increased violence from her husband because she cannot bring home her normal earnings during the COVID shutdown. 34