"Cyclone Ditwah has disrupted essential health services and increased risks of gender-based violence. ... we are scaling up life-saving services and restoring facilities to ensure no one is left behind."
Researcher Mislael Valentín-Cortés shared his take with CG about the findings from his team's new study.
With recovery efforts moving forward, UN Women notes that it is "investing in women-led civil society organizations that are on the frontline of the response."
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"We need to deepen the discussion on gender and disasters and ensure these issues reach decision-making tables."
"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.
"There are still questions around what causes endometriosis [...]," Julia Froese told CG. "Researching the mechanisms through which microplastics act to influence fertility can help us determine if they could have a combinatory effect when paired with other risk factors."
Marginalized communities and immigrant women in particular may face higher risks at home and on the job.
Global health consultant Medha Gandhi shared with CG about the importance of "reframing" SRH research and programming to include everyone and meet local needs.
"The medicines in the 20 relocated shipments, due to non-compliant storage, cannot be brought back into circulation. On the other hand ... "
"Too often you will call a woman to come for a checkup and she will say, 'There’s nothing coming out from the sea so we don’t have enough, I can’t come.'"
"This study gives the sector a powerful multi-country evidence base — which is essential for policy and donor investment decisions."
“ Women are the ones who understand the needs of their families and how much water is needed to manage their households," Nik Kowsar told CG. "They can teach how to manage the water to their own children."
For many, the consequences of freshwater scarcity may go beyond the time- and labor-intensive process of collecting it, with excessive consumption of and exposure to overly salty water linked to reproductive health concerns.
The Biden administration had estimated that more than 1,000 deaths and 3,700 cases of black lung could be prevented by implementing its rule in the U.S. Miners want to see its promise realized.
Researcher Cara Schulte told CG about conditions at mills in Pakistan that supply brands popular in the U.S. and Europe, highlighting experiences of women workers. "Hard to imagine someone feeling good about buying a sweater ... if they’d seen a worker vomit or faint in the heat while making it."
"Strategic investment in renewable energy and sustainable sectors can drive inclusive growth, enhance energy security, and protect vulnerable communities from environmental shocks."
The Guttmacher Institute's Candace Gibson spoke with CG about how water policy — not based on evidence of environmental harm & proposed across the US — could impact abortion. That's not to say all enviro policy is bad for repro rights. In France, Belgium, even the US, it may still help protect them.
"Without deliberate institutional reforms and targeted capacity-building initiatives, we risk perpetuating policies that fail to address the specific vulnerabilities of women and marginalized communities who suffer the most from environmental crises."
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"We cannot have an effective GAP while perpetuating fossil fuel extraction," Claudia Rubio Giraldo of Women's Environment and Development Organization told Climate, Gendered.
"We call on those countries committed to achieving gender equality to stand with us as vocal and fierce champions in the negotiating rooms of Belém."
"I hope I can be a little bit of proof to you that combining who you are and what you’re good at to fight for the change you want to see in the world works."
"In 'Celeste Saves the City,'" author Courtney Kelly told CG, "New Orleans is saved from flooding through the construction of multipurpose barrier islands that help to mitigate the impact of storm surge while allowing for the regeneration of existing wetlands."
