Many women have died, and their shitty little safe spaces have been destroyed. They will continue to suffer as they struggle to get sanitary products for their bleeding cunts!
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Also, women are more likely to die in earthquakes
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- Thousands of buildings, including UNFPA-supported maternity facilities, youth centres and women’s and girls’ safe spaces, have collapsed or been severely damaged. UNFPA’s immediate priority is to re-establish services that are critical to the health, well-being and protection of women and girls.
- In Syria, blankets and warm clothes in addition to dignity kits are being provided to women and girls in need. Mobile health teams and field clinics have been deployed to provide reproductive health and protection services to affected people in the four worst-hit governorates, where women and girls’ safe spaces will also be established. The provision of cash payments, which ensure women and girls can access health services and information, including for violence prevention and response, will be rapidly assessed and provided based on funding availability.
UNFPA scaling up emergency response to reach women and girls in Turkey and Syria in the aftermath of powerful earthquakes
UNFPA originally published this press release on February, 7 2023. At least 15 million people in Turkey and more than 7 million across Syria have been impacted by the quakes including thousands of pregnant women who need access to maternal...
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Also, women are more likely to die in earthquakes
- Natural disasters have disproportionately killed women and girls. Cyclone Gorky, which hit Bangladesh in 1991, caused around 140,000 deaths. The disparity between genders in terms of survival from this event was approximately 14:1. In other words, this cyclone killed 14 women for every man. Similarly, in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, 70 percent of the 250,000 fatalities were women.
More Women Die in Natural Disasters—Why? And What Can Be Done?
More women than men die in natural disasters, but gender-disaggregated data and catastrophe models could lead to informed action to improve this differential.
