It's World Environment Day and we are exploring interlinkages between climate change and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR)
As the world continues to experience incremental yet unpredictable extreme events due to climate change, the interlinkages with SRHR is an emerging issue that needs to be addressed in the context of sustainable development.
The interlinkages of climate change and SRHR are complex and indirect, and yet there is a resurgence of discourse that attempts to make a simplistic link between climate change and population growth.
5 Reasons Not To Link Climate Change and Population Control
Effects of climate change go beyond the environment and have socio-economic and political consequences, exacerbating existing issues of poverty and inequities. It has profound implications for social justice and gender equality, and significantly impacts on health.
5 Indicators of Climate Change and Their Impact on Women
Our partners working across Asia-Pacific on the interlinkages between climate change and SRHR find that it is women who are at the frontlines of the often invisible battle of climate change.
Based in Malaysia, the Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW) has been working since 1993 to champion women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). We try to achieve this through interlinked strategies of information and communications for change, monitoring and research for evidence-based advocacy, strengthening partnerships for advocacy and organisational development.