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The Indian Ocean Tsunami: Special Challenges for Women Survivors

posted: January 14, 2005

"It's not unlike a conflict setting," says Sandra Krause, director of the reproductive health program at the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children, a New York City-based nonprofit affiliate of the International Rescue Committee. "At every point in the relief and reconstruction effort, the particular needs of women have to be addressed."

by Robert Lalasz, Population Reference Bureau