Tsunami and Consequential Poverty
THE AFTERMATH OF THE TSUNAMI AND CONSEQUENTIAL POVERTY
SUBJECT: LAW AND POVERTY
SUBMITTED BY: NISHANT K PRASAD
2010-50
SUBMITTED TO: PROFESSOR AMITADHANDA
DEAN(ACADEMICS)
NALSAR UNIVERSITY OF LAW, HYDERABAD
A large number of people to the extent of 220,000 people were killed in the tsunami which hit South Asia in 2004. There were disastrous consequences of this natural calamity. Loss of millions of lives and displacement of millions more. All the reports and the media focussed on every possible impact of the disaster which included its impact on the environment, on tourism and even the impact of animals.
The surprising factor in this scenario which impacted me personally was that the tsunami’s consequence reports focussed on humans in general, ‘the victim’ in refugee camps, ‘the victim’ faced lack of aid etc. The problem being that there was a subset in the victims which faced more problems during the calamity as well as during the aftermath. This subset of victims were women.
Women suffered more during the tsunami. More women were killed than were men. The researcher looked at India, Sri Lanka and Indonesia for statistics and research and the statistics which were revealed were astonishing. The ratio of women who were killed to men was 3:1 on an average amongst all affected areas in these 3 nations and in a number of places this ratio was 4:1. In the North Aceh district of Indonesia out of 366 deaths, 284 were women. In Cuddalore in India there were 391 female deaths as compared to 146 men. And there were also some villages in India and Sri Lanka where all the deceased were women. As a starting point the researcher looked into the reason why women perished more than men. It was interesting to see that the cause was circumstantial but as a result of gender roles set by society.
We have to see that the areas affected by the tsunami were coastal areas
SUBJECT: LAW AND POVERTY
SUBMITTED BY: NISHANT K PRASAD
2010-50
SUBMITTED TO: PROFESSOR AMITADHANDA
DEAN(ACADEMICS)
NALSAR UNIVERSITY OF LAW, HYDERABAD
A large number of people to the extent of 220,000 people were killed in the tsunami which hit South Asia in 2004. There were disastrous consequences of this natural calamity. Loss of millions of lives and displacement of millions more. All the reports and the media focussed on every possible impact of the disaster which included its impact on the environment, on tourism and even the impact of animals.
The surprising factor in this scenario which impacted me personally was that the tsunami’s consequence reports focussed on humans in general, ‘the victim’ in refugee camps, ‘the victim’ faced lack of aid etc. The problem being that there was a subset in the victims which faced more problems during the calamity as well as during the aftermath. This subset of victims were women.
Women suffered more during the tsunami. More women were killed than were men. The researcher looked at India, Sri Lanka and Indonesia for statistics and research and the statistics which were revealed were astonishing. The ratio of women who were killed to men was 3:1 on an average amongst all affected areas in these 3 nations and in a number of places this ratio was 4:1. In the North Aceh district of Indonesia out of 366 deaths, 284 were women. In Cuddalore in India there were 391 female deaths as compared to 146 men. And there were also some villages in India and Sri Lanka where all the deceased were women. As a starting point the researcher looked into the reason why women perished more than men. It was interesting to see that the cause was circumstantial but as a result of gender roles set by society.
We have to see that the areas affected by the tsunami were coastal areas
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