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HARVARD JOURNAL OF HEALTH &
HUMAN RIGHTS - Volume 16, Issue 1
Climate Justice & The Right to Health - Women
Foreword - http://www.hhrjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2014/06/Robinson2.pdf
Mary Robinson, President of the Mary Robinson Foundation-Climate Justice
All too often, it is women who are most at risk from the impacts of climate change on health. The report of Working Group II of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) reveals that vulnerable groups, including women, will experience adverse effects on their health due to the impacts of climate change.....Rural women are highly dependent on subsistence agriculture to feed their families; however, their access to natural resources such as land, water, and food is often limited. Discrimination, resulting from laws or social norms and customs, and lower levels of access to education (among other factors), restrict women’s access to credit, agricultural inputs, technologies, and services like health care.
