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13 April 2022
Floods in South Africa: protecting people must include a focus on women and girls
When disastrous events like floods are combined with social inequities, their effects are much greater.
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9 March 2022
Risk, resilience and gender in the current Petrópolis tragedy
Women are more vulnerable to disasters because of their social roles, lack of access to resources and political marginalisation.
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8 March 2022
First come floods, then domestic violence. We need to prepare for the next inevitable crisis.
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11 October 2021
Alluvione: Girl power to combat floods in Indonesia
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6 April 2021
UNDP strengthens the capacity of Dominica’s female farmers in disaster management
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28 February 2021
Kurigram, Bangladesh: Rural women forging together to deal with multiple crises
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5 January 2021
Women more likely than men to suffer psychological distress from having their homes flooded
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23 December 2020
Natural hazards and child marriages: A case study from Bihar
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6 October 2020
Nepal: Why more women die in disasters
Women bear the brunt of most disasters in Nepal because the outmigration of men from the countryside.
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17 December 2019
How mangrove trees are sowing the seeds of female empowerment in Vietnam
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5 May 2019
Cabo Verde: Solar panels help communities adapt to drought
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16 April 2019
Disaster risk reduction: Avoiding the inevitable
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17 March 2019
Growing rice and resilience with women in Mali
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10 February 2019
India: As climate change grows more intense, women in battered coastal Odisha step up
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27 December 2018
India, Nepal: Save lives, train women to deal with disasters
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11 December 2018
We can’t rid Asia of natural disasters. But we can prepare for them
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21 November 2018
Building towards people-centric early warning systems in the Caribbean
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31 October 2018