If the U.S. took over the resource-rich territory? "Paid maternity leave, gone. Free abortion, gone. Free birth control, medicine, etc., gone. Safety on the streets for women ... also gone," the former member of Greenland's parliament worried, in conversation with CG.
"Fundamental to abortion care is … infrastructure," Marisa Falcon, a practical support organization expert, told CG on the threshold of a major winter storm expected to bring power outages, transit disruptions, and business closures to much of the U.S.
"Companies that fail to adapt … will lose market share," Emily Carey Perez de Alejo, executive director of the Maine-based watchdog group Defend Our Health, told CG.
"We are effectively trading the health of our planet and communities for misogyny," Brionté McCorkle, executive director of Georgia Conservation Voters, told CG.
"Climate justice and social injustice are completely interlinked," said Isabel González Whitaker of Moms Clean Air Force during a virtual event focused largely on the actions of federal agents across the U.S. targeting immigrants and others.
"We stress the importance of including and recognizing the voices of women leaders as key actors within their communities," said Catalina Vargas, CARE's country director in Colombia, which borders Venezuela, in a statement to CG.
"Abortion care must be explicitly included in climate and disaster response frameworks as a core health service," researchers Tamara Fetters of Ipas and Ruvani Jayaweera of Ibis Reproductive Health told CG.
