Of the 750 million South Asians affected by at least one climate-related disaster in the last two decades, women have been disproportionately impacted. (via WMC's the_fbomb)
, has worked with women in India, specifically widows, at local and national levels to run shelter homes, family counseling centers, and schools for conflict-affected children. Khanna described similar situations in which women experience the effects of climate change on a daily basis.
When floods or earthquakes occur, women, especially those in a lower socioeconomic class, are less likely to have the technology to see warning signals, Khanna said. Then, when women leave their homes after disasters and are placed in displacement camps, they face further vulnerability to sexual violence.
Adding to the uneven nature of a warming climate, some South Asian women must shoulder the posthumous debt of their husbands. “[My researchers] were interviewing one family where the woman said her husband committed suicide because there were two years of continuous rainfall shortage and they had taken loans and they could not pay them back,” Dhara said. “The money lender comes and says to her ‘Give me the money’ and then says if you can’t pay back the money, then you [move].”
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