Abstract:

Natural disasters and human rights are closely related. Natural disasters lead to violations of basic human rights of individuals such as the right to experience the right to benefit from qualified health services, the right to security and shelter. Natural disasters are also events that bring to light the already existing violations of human rights and inequalities in a society. Gender- based violence and discrimination, which is prevalent in some societies, especially against women and girls, increases with natural disasters. The most important factor underlying this increase is the social and cultural factors that support gender inequality and structure gender-based violence. In this study, the relationship between natural disasters and gender-based human rights violations against women and girls, which has been limited so far in local sources, is discussed. A literature review was conducted, mainly based on qualitative Research methods. On the other hand, foreign literature examining the relationship between natural disasters and gender-based violence and discrimination with quantitative methods was examined, and in these studies, a large amount of evidence was found that disasters affect women and girls disproportionately compared to men. In addition, alternative suggestions have been tried to be made regarding human rights violations against women within the scope of natural disasters.

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