Monsoon Floods In Pakistan

This past summer, seasonal floods across Pakistan killed more than 67 people and displaced thousands. Similar events has been constantly plaguing millions of people in Pakistan for the past five years, where this country has experienced unusual severe monsoon rains in the summer. One of such event was the devastating floods in 2010, which displaced an outrageous 11 million people. This report will examine how much impact the 2010 floods had on Pakistan 's population and it will inspect the displacement this devastating disaster caused. Furthermore, this report will also explore the economic and social consequences of the floods, reasons for migration, different types of migration, issues caused by migration and obstacles preventing the population

It submerged one-fifth of the country. This enormous natural disaster impacted an estimated 18 million people and caused more than 12 million people to become homeless due to damages or total destruction to their homes. The death-toll from this incident reached 1,985 people. It also destroyed hundreds of hectares of cultivatable land and crops with an estimated death of 1.2 million livestock, causing the poor families who were dependent on them for food to cripple. This caused all the foods to rise in price, making it harder for poorer people to survive. The country also suffered more than 10 billion US dollars in damages to infrastructure, irrigation systems, bridges, houses and roads. The economic consequences for the country were estimated to be as much as 43 billion US dollars. This devastating event also caused approximately 11 million people to displace in order to find food and drinkable water.

Extreme, sudden-onset weather events - primarily floods and storms - displaced more than 38 million people worldwide in 2010, where the devastating floods in Pakistan accounted for 11 million people. The scale, scope and speed of events posed an enormous challenge for

In particular, it was reported that older women, single women and single women with dependent children whose sons or male relatives had registered as heads of household were discriminated against. Men with more than one wife and family would similarly discriminate against second wives. Furthermore, women 's work in the informal sector and in agriculture is not given official recognition, unlike that of their male counterparts. This resulted in poor earnings, which caused the women heads of households to struggle to make a decent living after the disaster. Additionally, as different tribes, families and villages were thrown together in camps, there were many reported cases of women getting sexually harassed and