WUNRN
INDONESIA - VOLCANO ERUPTION -
NATURAL DISASTER - WOMEN IN CRISIS
VOLCANIC ASH ENTOMBS INDONESIAN
VILLAGES
A woman clutches a bag as she is
evacuated from an area near the Central Java
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16 November 2010 – The United
Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
has provided critical medical and other assistance to tens of thousands of
pregnant women, who are among the 340,000 people uprooted by the recent
eruptions of Indonesia’s Mount Merapi......"Vulnerability to sexual and
gender-based violence tends to increase during emergencies, so this is an area
that UNFPA is also addressing,” said Jose Ferraris, UNFPA Representative in
Indonesia......
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http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/11/15/indonesia-merapi-volcano.html
Mount Merapi volcano spews ash as a villager collects her valuables from
the ruins of her house at Kali Tengah village in Sleman, near