Posts Tagged ‘Climate Change’
Women bear the brunt of climate-forced migration
In a recent article, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) stated in 2014, “Environmental migration is a gendered process, but discussions within public, policy, and academia regarding environmental migration are often gender-neutral, few studies making the link between migration, environment and gender.” According to the IOM, “vulnerabilities, experiences, needs and priorities of environmental migrants vary according…
Read MoreWomen Scientists and Environmental Activists Fight Back Against Climate Change Deniers in D.C.
A lot is happening this week, but a few things have remained the same for us here at WEA: 1) Facts are facts, 2) climate change is happening (we see the impacts in our work everyday), and 3) women continue to stand up for the earth and their communities. We’ve been inspired by the thousands…
Read MoreIndigenous women in Peru use seed saving and traditional knowledge to combat climate change
Throughout the 10 years of WEA’s work, we’ve seen how women are often those preserving traditional knowledge and shepherding intergenerational knowledge transfer within communities. This is true of both ecological and cultural knowledge, and those two things more often than not are intimately linked. Seed saving is a wonderful example of this link, and we…
Read MoreWomen, disasters and climate change
As Mary Robinson and Wangari Maathai stated in the Huffington Post in 2010, “The battle to protect the environment is not solely about technological innovation — it is also about empowering women and their communities to hold their governments accountable for results.” This has been a core foundation of WEA’s work for the last decade, and — as…
Read MoreClimate Change Effects Lead to Mass Migration in India
“Displacement for populations due to erratic and extreme weather, a fallout of climate change, has become a scary reality for millions of people across swathes of India. Flooding in Jammu and Kashmir last year, in Uttarakhand in 2013 and in Assam in 2012 displaced 1.5 million people.” South Asia continues to be hard hit by…
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