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Women are key in tackling disaster: UN officials

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Women are far more exposed to disasters than men given their frontline roles in the home and in healthcare, the UN says, arguing that improving gender equality is key to saving lives.
AFP

Globally, women and children are up to 14 times more likely than men to die in a disaster, according to UN Population Fund account executive Lamar Dawson.
Remi Sogunro, who represents the United Nations Population Fund in Liberia, said women bore the brunt not only of natural disasters like that unfolding in Vanuatu, but in human catastrophes like the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Women are caregivers at home, and when their... families are sick, they take care of them, he said.
Around 25,000 people are known to have been infected with Ebola since the latest outbreak began in December 2013. Around 10,000 of them have died.
In Liberia, one of the worst-hit countries, thousands of people were infected including 300 health workers, said Sogunro.
Half of (the health workers) died. Most of them are nurses, some of them are midwives, a few of them are senior medical doctors. Many of these were women, he said.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said that even in developed countries like Japan, much more needed to be done to get women more involved in reducing the impact of disasters.
But Rachel Kyte, Vice President of the World Bank, said even in a forum like the Sendai conference, where participants agree on the need to empower women, there are few in evidence.
On Saturday she had 11 meetings. In nine of those meetings I was the only woman, she said.
Women are key in tackling disaster: UN officials
Women are key in tackling disaster: UN officials
Women are key in tackling disaster: UN officials
Women are key in tackling disaster: UN officials
Women are key in tackling disaster: UN officials
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