Assisting and empowering women facing natural disasters: drawing from Security Council resolution 1325.

From: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law | Date: September 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

In the wake of the tsunami that hit the coastal communities of the Indian Ocean, images of women were splashed over the media's reports of the catastrophe. But while sympathy for women has garnered a great deal of aid, "[b]eyond the camera lens in the follow-up policies ... there is a trend for women to be rendered almost invisible." (1) Reports by women's groups streaming in from all over the region reflect the same message--women were among the hardest hit by the tsunami, and women continue to be the most marginalized in relief efforts. (2)

While the relative lack of ...

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