Climate crisis driving surge in gender-based violence, UN report finds

Africa: Climate Change Will Result in an Additional 40 Million Women and Girls Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence Every Year, Finds Spotlight Initiative Report

For decades, feminist organizations and women's movements have pointed out that climate change exacerbates violence against women and girls, a human rights violation that already affects at least one in three women and girls globally. It is also well known that violence inhibits climate action, threatening women's and girls' ability to create change and reducing our collective ability to fight the climate crisis. But these relationships have oft…

“Extreme weather conditions, displacements, food insecurity and economic instability are key factors that increase the prevalence and severity of gender-based violence,” the report said. READ ALSO: Argentina reports more than 70 femicides in three months According to the organization's descriptions, these effects are more serious in fragile communities, where women already face entrenched inequalities and are more vulnerable to aggression. Each …

Women eat less meat, drive smaller cars (if at all), buy more organic and are more committed to the climate than men. Do we now need to save the planet as well as job and care work?If I cycle to work, use the lid when cooking or squeeze to my neighbor in the Fiat to drive to the recycling yard, then this is normal everyday life. I was not aware of half of the population that lives more environmentally friendlyly than the others. Until I came acr…

Each 1°C increase in global temperature is associated with an increase of 4.7% in partner violence. In a warming scenario of 2°C, 40 million more women and girls are likely to experience partner violence each year by 2090. Currently one in three women has suffered physical, sexual or psychological abuse throughout their lives. Geneva, Switzerland.- If urgent action is not taken, climate change could be related to one in ten cases of partner viol…

New report links gender-based violence to climate change

UNITED NATIONS (CMC): Despite a new report warning that climate change is intensifying the social and economic stresses that are fuelling increased levels of violence against women and girls, only 0.04 per cent of climate-related development...

New report links gender based violence to climate change

New report links gender based violence to climate change UNITED NATIONS, CMC - Despite a new report warning that climate change is intensifying the social and economic stresses that are fuelling increased levels of violence against women and girls, only 0.04 per cent of climate-related development...