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Designing, resourcing and implementing gender-sensitive disaster risk reduction policies, plans and programmes. raising awareness of gendered vulnerabilities of men, women and LGBTs, and promoting inclusion and leadership of women and gender minorities in DRR.

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The unjust climate: Measuring impacts of climate change on rural poor, women and youth

Discover how climate change is widening inequalities among rural poor, women, and youth, and explore actionable solutions to protect the most vulnerable in this FAO report.
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Research briefs

Extreme heat linked to diabetes in pregnant women, thyroid disorders: Study

There are links between extreme temperatures and gestational diabetes in pregnant women, as well as between heat and thyroid disorders.
Straits Times, the
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Documents and publications

Climate change impacts and intimate partner violence in Sub-Saharan Africa

UNFPA, in collaboration with the IIASA and the University of Vienna, conducted a comprehensive analysis and projections of climate change impact on IPV using demographic and health surveys and shared socioeconomic pathways.
Beninese mother carries her little child in her hands
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Domestic violence in sub-Saharan Africa will triple by 2060 due to extreme heat epidemic and stalling development, new UNFPA research finds

Tens of millions of women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa will experience catastrophic levels of intimate partner violence because the world is failing to make progress on the climate crisis.
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Two women Tea Laborers plucking Tea leaves in a Tea Garden in Hatton, Sri Lanka.
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Women hold the solutions to tackling climate change and hunger. Just ask them

When climate change impacts women’s food production and income, it also means less food for men and children. It is long past time for women’s voices to inform strategies for climate adaptation and crisis-response planning.
World Economic Forum
Hurricane Beryl underscores need for urgent action on Disaster Risk Reduction
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UN Women assists rebuilding efforts after Caribbean hurricanes

Relying first on local and women-owned businesses has been a key strategy of UN Women’s response to disasters. This helps reinvigorate local economies and directly supports small and medium enterprise owners as they restore their livelihoods.”
United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)
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Research briefs

Older women more vulnerable to heat than their male peers, researchers find

A new study by researchers at Penn State has found that older women are physiologically more vulnerable to high heat and humidity than older men, and that women between the ages of 40 and 64 are as vulnerable as men 65 years of age or older.
Pennsylvania State University
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Documents and publications

Who is more water insecure? Gendered evidence from urban Pakistan

This study examines factors affecting water security in urban Pakistan through a gender lens. They surveyed 560 men and women in two towns in Islamabad and Rawalpindi facing water and sanitation challenges.
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