“We found gender-based violence to be pervasive, and there is enough clear evidence to suggest that climate change is increasing gender-based violence.”
Girls and women are at a high risk of sex trafficking after a natural disaster such as flooding.
Gender-based violence is used around the world by men to control women’s privileges and access to resources. According to the study, which looked at cases and data from more than 1,000 global sources, “conflict over access to scarce resources can give rise to practices such as ‘sex-for-fish,’ where fishermen refuse to sell fish to women if they do not engage in sex, which was seen to occur in parts of eastern and southern Africa.
“We found gender-based violence to be pervasive, and there is enough clear evidence to suggest that climate change is increasing gender-based violence,” said Cate Owren, a lead author of the report, . “As environmental degradation and stress on ecosystems increases, that in turn creates scarcity and stress for people, and the evidence shows that, where environmental pressures increase, gender-based violence increases.
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