CLIMATE CHANGE
Source: https://www.context.news/climate-justice/does-climate-change-increase-violence-towards-women
LONDON – Women farmers, land defenders and critical mineral miners are disproportionately exposed to effects of a warming world, but a growing body of evidence has also linked climate change to an increase in gender-based violence at work and at home.
This new threat comes on top of women’s greater exposure to displacement, water scarcity and ill health, all as a result of climate change.