{"id":96765,"date":"2026-09-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=96765"},"modified":"2026-09-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T12:00:00","slug":"nepal-floods-mounting-death-toll-and-concern-for-women-and-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=96765","title":{"rendered":"Nepal floods: Mounting death toll and concern for women and girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The death toll currently stands at 987 while 4,247 people remain missing, Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the UN aid coordination office OCHA, said on Tuesday in Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>The catastrophic flooding was trigged by a glacier collapse in the Himalayas on the border with China. Authorities there report that 16 people were killed and 546 are missing, he said.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>\u2018Real and immediate\u2019 risks remain<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Nearly a week has passed since the flooding began, and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is only now able to access hard-hit areas such as Rasuwa district.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSearch and rescue is still ongoing, and the monsoon hasn\u2019t stopped\u201d said Matt Baden, IFRC Operations Manager for the Nepal crisis response, speaking from Kathmandu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlocked waterways remain at risk to further flooding, and threat of landslides is real and immediate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, people are returning to look for their homes and what is left of them.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Women and girls in need<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>As a result of the disaster, some 43,000 women and girls in Nepal now require immediate humanitarian assistance, according to UN Women.<\/p>\n<p>Christine Arab, the agency\u2019s Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, said partners on the ground stress that women survivors are running out of food, while safe water is increasingly inaccessible and protection risks are growing.<\/p>\n<p>They warn that women could be excluded from the decision-making around response and recovery.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Disaster highlights inequalities<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>She told journalists that many people who normally would receive humanitarian support\u2014such as pregnant women, nursing mothers and persons with disabilities\u2014have been \u201cwashed away\u201d because they could not get to higher ground.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd this is what happens when a disaster meets inequality: the people already left behind are often the first to be swept away,\u201d she said, speaking from Bangkok.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the floods, women and girls in Rasuwa district were already spending hours a day travelling long distances to collect water.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, these women are telling us that access to safe water has been cut off altogether, following the destruction of water systems, roads, and bridges,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Women\u2019s role in recovery<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The top official added that food is the most urgent priority for women in the worst-affected areas.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, disasters also bring increased risks of gender-based violence, exploitation, and trafficking, while damaged infrastructure and communications can make it harder for survivors to seek help and access protection services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe humanitarian response must recognize the experiences of women and girls,\u201d she said.\u00a0 \u201cIt must reach them and it must include them as key drivers in Nepal\u2019s recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Health access critical<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Maintaining access to health services remains a priority, said\u00a0Christian Lindmeier, spokesperson for the World Health Organization (WHO).<\/p>\n<p>Six health facilities have suffered damage or destruction while two others cannot be reached, meaning that\u00a0\u201cpeople on the ground don&#8217;t have a health facility available at the time of their biggest needs.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that \u201cwhile immediate efforts remain focused on life-saving interventions\u2026preventing secondary public health impacts is equally important.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Lindmeier explained that flooding, displacement, overcrowding and stagnant water can increase the risk of disease outbreaks. In this regard, WHO is supporting surveillance in both affected and downstream areas to monitor the potential increase of dengue, scrub typhus, and other communicable diseases.<\/p>\n<p>The UN agency has also supported the identification of priority medicines, diagnostic kits, and essential health commodities while also providing technical guidance, including with regard to infection prevention and the safe and dignified management of bodies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/story\/2026\/09\/1168234\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll currently stands at 987 while 4,247 people remain missing, Jens Laerke, spokesperson for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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