Climate change increases threats of violence against women and girls, says UN

The United Nations Special Rapporteur denounced violence against women and girls and presented a report (🇬🇧) to the UN General Assembly, where he described climate change as “the most consequential threat multiplier for women and girls, with far-reaching impacts on new and existing forms of gender inequalities”.

She maintained that the “cumulative and gendered consequences” of climate change and environmental degradation “violate all aspects” of their rightssystem. (OHCHR*)

“Climate change is not just an ecological crisis, but fundamentally a issue of justice, prosperity and equality gender, and intrinsically linked to and influenced by structural inequality and discrimination,” said Alsalemum.

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