Climate Woes Growing for Women, Hit Worst by Displacement and Migration

Reuters

From sexual violence in displacement camps to extra farm work and greater risk of illness, women shoulder a bigger burden from worsening extreme weather and other climate pressures that are pushing people to move for survival, a global aid group said on Tuesday. Forced displacement will likely be one of the most common and damaging effects on vulnerable people if warming isn’t curbed, it said.

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