Women in Sri Lanka can suffer physical, verbal and psychological abuse when basic needs are not being met, according to a gender and climate change researcher.
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Sapumal Thenna, Sri Lanka After years of scant rainfall in a remote region of Sri Lanka, farmer Renuka Karunarathna's crops failed and as the family's income dwindled, her husband took his anger out on her, beating her so badly she had to go to hospital. “I have got beaten up so many times,” Karunarathna told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in her village of Sapumal Thenna in Sri Lanka's North Central Province. “I suffer a lot.” Domestic violence is a little-studied side effect of climate