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In disaster zones, it’s women and girls who feel the aftershocks

In Turkey’s southern province of Hatay, one of the most ravaged cities in earthquakes last month, 25-year-old Alev Altun, the mother of two young children, became homeless in one night, like thousands of others. Having nowhere to go, she agreed to take refuge in the house of her ex-husband, on his invitation, assuming it would be safer to stay with the father of her children than alone in a tent or in a building at risk of collapse.

While she was sleeping, her ex-husband

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