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PHOTOS: Women are vulnerable in disasters
21 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT
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An unidentifed Iranian woman (C) mourns the death of her child, with her family members following a mass burial at a cemetery in the ancient Silk Road city of Bam in southeast Iran, December 30, 2003. The death toll from Friday's earthquake in Iran may reach 50,000, government officials told Reuters on Tuesday as relief workers called for more blankets, clothing and medicines for tens of thousands of survivors. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay
REF: IRAN QUAKE



PAR97D:MOZAMBIQUE-FLOODS:MUNDIAL, MOZAMBIQUE,1MAR00 - Mozambican villagers sit on their rooftop awaiting rescue as Sergeant Alwyn Pieterse (L) from the South African National Defence Force ( SANDF) approaches in the flooded village of Mundial some 150 km north of Maputo which is under water after the Limpopo river burst it's banks, March 1. An estimated 100,000 people are still trapped in trees and on rooftops after three weeks of flooding in central Mozambique. jes/POOL/Photo by Odd Andersen REUTERS
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An Indian tsunami survivor reacts as she looks at the debris of destroyed houses being burnt by Indian workers in a fishing hamlet in Nagapattinam, 350 km ( 219 miles) south of the Indian city of Madras January 4, 2005. An army of aid workers raced on Tuesday to supply food and water to millions of tsunami victims and the United Nations warned a death toll of 150,000 would climb as more bodies are found and disease stalks survivors. REUTERS/Arko Datta
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A Sri Lankan tsunami survivor looks out of a window at a shelter for the displaced in the town of Kalmunai on Sri Lanka's east coast January 14, 2005. REUTERS/Arko Datta
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An Indonesian refugee holds her son onboard a U.S. military transport plane at Banda Aceh airport January 3, 2005. Eight days on, hungry and sick survivors of the Indian Ocean tsunami are waiting for food and medicine in growing desperation as a multinational aid operation tries to reach remote towns ravaged by the waves. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco
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Catalina Lopez looks through the roof of her destroyed home as she searches for useful belongings inside the rubble in San Juan Tepezontes, 20 miles from San Salvador, February 15, 2001. El Salvador was struck by a powerful new 6. 1 richter scale earthquake on February 13, killing at least 276 people, injuring 2432, and leaving 76 missing, just one month after a larger quake killed 844 people and left thousands homeless. REUTERS/Jorge Silva
REF: SALVADOR QUAKE



Women mourn the death of victims killed when a tsunami hit on Sunday during their burial in Cuddalore, 180 km (112 miles) south of the southern Indian city of Madras December 27, 2004. Hundreds of Indians scattered flower petals on the sea and sacrificed chickens on Monday to pray for the safe return of those carried away in a tidal wave triggered by an earthquake, as officials warned of more high waves. REUTERS/Arko Datta
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Earthquake survivors receive donated food in San Miguel Tepezonte, approximately 40 miles (64 km) east of the capital, February 14, 2001. El Salvador was struck on Tuesday by a new powerful earthquake that killed at least 255 and injuring 2261 people. REUTERS/ Kimberly White
REF: QUAKE SALVADOR



Hawa Bhai, a 55-year-old woman, lies inside a Red Cross hospital in the western town of Bhuj on February 8, 2001. Bhuj is the main city of Kutch in the western state of Gujarat, where some 30, 000 people were killed by the January 26 earthquake and hundreds of thousands were left homeless, hungry and vulnerable to water-borne diseases. REUTERS/Jayanta Shaw
REF: QUAKE INDIA



An unidentifed Iranian woman (C) mourns the death of her child, with her family members following a mass burial at a cemetery in the ancient Silk Road city of Bam in southeast Iran, December 30, 2003. The death toll from Friday's earthquake in Iran may reach 50,000, government officials told Reuters on Tuesday as relief workers called for more blankets, clothing and medicines for tens of thousands of survivors. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay
REF: IRAN QUAKE



Shanta Bai stands in front of he destroyed house as she waits for the debris to be cleared in the village of Adhoi in the western Indian state of Gujarat February 5, 2001. The estimated death toll from the massive January 26 earthquake stands at 30,000 people. REUTERS/Kamal Kishore
REF: QUAKE INDIA



An Acehnese woman holds her baby in a tent at a refugee camp in the tsunami- hit city of Banda Aceh on the Indonesian island of Sumatra January 6, 2005. The United Nations wants major donors to allocate nearly $1 billion of promised monies for spending on basic needs for victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami over the next six months. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco
REF: ACE22D2



Women stand in line to register aid applications at the Mahmoud Ladies School which is being used as a refugee shelter for homeless tsunami families in Kalmunai on Sri Lanka's east coast January 10, 2005. The death toll from the Asian tsunami, triggered by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake off Indonesia on December 26, stood at 156,193 people, government and health officials said. REUTERS/Kieran Doherty
REF: KAL209D



Salvadorean Margarita Lopez stands in front of the remains of her crushed home in Santa Tecla, San Salvador, January 14, 2001. Rescue workers searched early Sunday for survivors after an earthquake of 7.6 magnitude left more than 60 people dead and hundreds missing in El Salvador and Guatemala, officials said. REUTERS/Jorge Silva
REF: QUAKE SALVADOR



Cecilia Rivera weeps as she mourns her mother and brother at the site where her home once stood in the Las Colinas neighbourhood of Santa Tecla, a San Salvador suburb, January 16, 2001. Cecilia left for work on the morning of January 13, and shortly after 11:30am her home was buried under a mountain of earth as the hillside above gave way during a powerful 7.6 Richter scale earthquake which rocked El Salvador. Over six hundred people are now known to have died in the earthquake. REUTERS/ Andrew Winning
REF: QUAKE SALVADOR



Haiti
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Mae Zahir, who travelled from Los Angeles to Bam to recover her father's remains holds old family crystal, which survived the earthquake, as she looks in disbelief at the wreck which was her childhood home December 31, 2003. REUTERS/Caren Firouz
REF: IRAN EARTHQUAKE



TEG03D:WEATHER-MITCH:LAS DELICIAS, HONDURAS,23NOV98 - A Honduran woman and child wait to be handed emergency supplies November 22 in the Honduran & quotLas Delicias" sector on the river Coco bordering with Nicaragua. The passage of Hurricane Mitch left several thousand dead, 12,000 missing and destroyed the country's communications, leaving tens of thousands homeless and isolated. The Las Delicias inhabitants have only received two loads of emergency supplies from these small Honduran air force helicopters since the disaster three weeks ago, when their homes were washed away by the hurricane. db/Photo by Desmond Boylan REUTERS
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Earthquake victim Desai Bai, 25, sits in a field hospital at Lodai village, some 40 kms from Bhuj January 31, 2001. Hopes of finding more trapped survivors from India's earthquake dimmed on Wednesday and authorities turned their attention to caring for the homeless and preventing looting across the ravaged region. REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski
REF: INDIA QUAKE



An Indian woman mourns the death of her relative (R) who was killed in tsunami on Sunday in Cuddalore, some 180 km (112 miles) south of the southern Indian city of Madras December 28, 2004. REUTERS/ Arko Datta
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MAP01D:MOZAMBIQUE-WEATHER:CHOKWE, MOZAMBIQUE,25FEB00 - A Mozambican woman waits at Chokwe bridge to be ferried to Chinhacanine village February 25. Mozambique officials said at least 150 people have died, more than 200,000 have been left homeless and 800,000 are at risk since floods began two weeks ago. jn/Photo by Juda Ngwenya REUTERS
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Bam
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MAP01D:MOZAMBIQUE-FLOODS:CHOKWE, MOZAMBIQUE,29FEB00 - A Mozambican woman who spent three nights in the top branches of a tree, waits to be airlifted by helicopter in Chokwe province February 29 after heavy rains flooded Chokwe province north of Maputo. President Joaquim Chissano warned on Tuesday that thousands of Mozambicans were still stranded by rising water as donations started to pour in from around the world after three weeks of devastating flooding. jn/POOL/Photo by Juda Ngwenya REUTERS
REF: MOZAMBIQUE FLOODS



Haulath Abdus Samad carries her 14-day- old baby, called Tsunami, at their home in Guraiudhoo island, Maldives on January 9, 2005. Baby Tsunami was born on December 26 as the Asian tsunami hit the family's home island killing her one- year-old elder brother. REUTERS/ Anuruddha Lokuhapuarachchi
REF: MAL03D





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