How to make women safer in disasters? Attack inequality


  • World
  • Saturday, 14 Mar 2015

SENDAI, Japan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women's vulnerability to disasters is a sign not of weakness but of inequality, and barriers to women taking the lead in protecting themselves must be removed, top politicians and officials told a U.N. conference on Saturday.

Philippine Senator Loren Legarda said statistics showed women face greater risks in times of disaster.

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