OHCHR: “Women, Girls Face  Harshest, Most Violent Consequences of Climate Change”

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet stressed the urgent need to focus on the issue of violence against women and girls, which has been exacerbated by the climate crisis.

In her speech on women's human rights during the 50th session of the Human Rights Council, Bachelet said that women and girls face "the harshest and most violent repercussions of climate change," noting that displaced women, who represent 80 percent of those displaced by climate change, are more at risk of violence.

The High Commissioner warned that the dangers faced by women and girls around the world due to social and economic insecurity and inequalities resulting from climate impacts on agriculture and livelihoods, which can have wide-ranging consequences, including domestic violence, child and forced marriage.