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Floods: The 2011 floods affected 4.8 million people, half of them children (an estimated 500,000 below the age of five). It is estimated that over 2.5 million men, women and children still lack essentials of life such as clean water, adequate food and durable shelter. The floods left over 2.4 million children and 1.2 million women vulnerable and exposed; lacking access to safe drinking water, sanitation and healthcare.<ref name="DTSep52012">[{{Reference archive|1=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2012/09/05/story_5-9-2012_pg7_25|2=2012-09-05}} 2,000 minorities girls converted to Islam forcibly: report] - Daily Times, September 5, 2012</ref>}} | Floods: The 2011 floods affected 4.8 million people, half of them children (an estimated 500,000 below the age of five). It is estimated that over 2.5 million men, women and children still lack essentials of life such as clean water, adequate food and durable shelter. The floods left over 2.4 million children and 1.2 million women vulnerable and exposed; lacking access to safe drinking water, sanitation and healthcare.<ref name="DTSep52012">[{{Reference archive|1=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2012/09/05/story_5-9-2012_pg7_25|2=2012-09-05}} 2,000 minorities girls converted to Islam forcibly: report] - Daily Times, September 5, 2012</ref>}} | ||
{{Quote|1=September, 2012|2=Women in Yemen are worse off now than a year ago, when they played a significant part in the country’s revolution that promised political and economic change, an international aid agency has concluded. | |||
In a report released on Monday, Oxfam International said '''four out of five Yemeni women claim their lives have only become harder over the past 12 months.''' Faced with an intensifying humanitarian crisis, which has left a quarter of women between the ages of 15 and 49 acutely malnourished, they say they’re struggling to feed their families and are unable to participate in the country’s transition.<BR>. . .<BR> | |||
The report, which surveyed 136 women across Yemen in July and August, also says the '''majority of women asserted they felt less safe than a year ago.''' They cited concern over the proliferation of small arms '''“gun battles in the streets of Sana’a” and the risk of sexual assault'''. In camps for internally displaced individuals, such as in Haradh in the north, women said pressures from current crises have led to higher levels of domestic violence. | |||
Displaced women also said they felt unsafe returning to their homes in provinces like Abyan to the south, where the government recaptured areas from Al Qaida militants this summer. In addition, women said there was a lack of protection provided to them by police and other security authorities. | |||
On the political front, '''women were emboldened after last year’s uprisings, but now claim they are feeling “sidelined by the transition process and say they have been shut out of decision-making by political parties and the government”''', the report said.<ref>[{{Reference archive|1=http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/yemen/yemeni-women-lose-out-after-revolution-1.1080443|2=2012-09-25}} Yemeni women lose out after revolution] - Associated Press, September 24, 2012</ref>}} | |||
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