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CAUGHT IN THE STORM: THE IMPACT OF NATURAL DISASTERS ON WOMEN
Global Fund for Women
 
Direct Link to Report:
http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/cms/images/stories/downloads/disaster-report.pdf
 
INDIA - WOMEN IN MONSOON
 
Indian women share a light moment while 
they walk along a waterlogged street 
after a heavy-monsoon shower in the 
eastern Indian city of Calcutta July 12, 
2004. Annual monsoon flooding in India 
has killed more than 100 people since 
the first week of July and has left 
millions displaced from their homes or 
marooned in flood-hit areas in the 
country's low-lying eastern areas. 
REUTERS/Sucheta 
Das 
 
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SP236920.htm
 
Thousands More Homeless as Asia Weather Misery Spreads
27 Jul 2007
Source: Reuters 
 
....In India, incessant rains over the past week have displaced hundreds of thousands of people in the east and northeast, destroyed crops and damaged bridges, officials said on Friday.

In the eastern state of Bihar, 21 people have died and hundreds of thousands of villagers have seen their houses washed away. Road and rail networks have been disrupted by heavy monsoon rains over the past three days.....
 
 




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