Natural disasters

A women with a covered face and a baby on her knee is surrounded by rubble and other survivors.

Afghanistan

In the Aftermath of a Devastating Earthquake, Afghan Women Struggle to Get Help…Because They’re Women

Taliban restrictions have made women medics a rarity, putting women’s health, care and survival at serious risk.

We see the back of Dağdeviren at a piano on a pile of rubble, the shell of a building in front of her.

Turkey

‘A Scar That Stays With Us’—Two Years After a Devastating Earthquake, a Refusal to Be Forgotten

Two years after a 2023 earthquake devastated swaths of Syria and Turkey, lives are still being rebuilt. Women bear the brunt of it.