Climate crisis is leading to increased violence against women and girls

The climate crisis is doing to the sea-level rise, reduced biodiversity, and let the resources dry up, just like some of the effects of global warming on the earth. Yet, in a surprising, and undesirable, consequence of a large-scale world conservation union (IUCN study have lead to the climate crisis, to violence against women and girls.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and the report of more than a thousand sources, and it has a two-year research work. The world conservation union (IUCN is the world's largest and oldest union for the conservation of nature.

The gender-based violence is defined as: stalking, sexual assault, rape, domestic violence, female genital mutilation, child marriage, forced prostitution, forced marriage and other forms of exploitation of women.

"As for the environment, and the ecosystems continue to deteriorate, this will lead to tightness and stress. The evidence shows that when the pressure increases, gender-based violence is increasing", said Cate Owren, the main author of the report. Owren described in the study, have dozens of examples of how to elaborate an impact on gender-based violence.

child marriage, and sexual exploitation of children < / p> Thus, the water carrying and wood gathering jobs, which are often used by women, to be carried out more risky now that the sources are drying up, and they continued to walk. Along the way, they run the risk of becoming a victim of sexual assault to be made. Land tenure also plays an important role: the male farmers demands for sexual favors, to the use of, or across the country.

In Western Kenya, it has been the practice of catching fish to trade for sex and, as usual, that's a name that has been in the jaboya system. Studies have shown that the male fishermen because of sexual favors, would prefer to sell fish to the women, thus making women more vulnerable to hiv and aids. In the developing world, hiv and aids, are four to fourteen times more likely to be in limited in size than the average in the country. In addition, illegal logging and houtskoolhandel in the Congo is linked to the sexual exploitation of children. In Colombia and Peru are illegal mines, are strongly associated with an increase in the sex trade.

Although the rate of child marriage has declined in recent years, increasing long-term conflicts, and climate change mitigation in many countries, the risk is that the girls are young to be married, to write, Julie Freccero, and I Whiting, of Save the Children, and the Human Rights Center at the world conservation union (IUCN report.

She described the situation in Bangladesh, where people of all ages to get married as a survival strategy it is. Due to the devastating cyclone in the country, the families have enough money for their children's needs. Daughters at a very young age, married very young, so that there is one mouth less to feed is.

a Crisis to make people vulnerable to

in a Crisis, people in all sorts of ways to be more vulnerable and this report is good to see, " says Jamila Mejdoubi. She is a senior researcher on violence against women in the Atrium, is a leading knowledge institute for emancipation and women's history.

gender-related violence, according to Mejdoubi, stems from the inequality of the different socio-cultural roles of men and women and can be linked to. And then, in particular, due to the differences in power and dependency that flow from it.

"the Poverty, the unemployment, the debt and the resulting stress, also in the Netherlands, the risk factors for violence, but more often it is an accumulation of factors which cause and effect are difficult to establish."

In this case, a correlation with climate, say the researchers, women are more vulnerable. "It is a woman, at night, in the dark, just down the street. There are people are not, by definition, be on the alert, but it allows women to be more vulnerable. It's good to be aware of the fact that violence against women is a worldwide problem and that all socio-economic strata of the society in this regard. And also, the majority of violence against women around the world, concerning violence by an intimate partner."