Women most at risk for climate disasters
London - Arabstoday
From 1999 to 2008, floods affected almost one billion people in Asia, 28 million in the Americas, 22 million in Africa and four million in Europe. A new United Nations report says that women are most at risk from such climate disasters. I asked Jim Sniffen, Information Officer with UNEP, the United Nations Environment Programme, in New York, why women were disproportionately affected.
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