This appalling injustice demands rapid emissions cuts and a legally binding global agreement to protect the rights of climate refugees, including specific recognition of gender inequalities. We challenge any leader of a high-polluting nation or CEO of a fossil fuel company to listen to the women and children of Dadaab - on the front lines of the climate crisis despite the fact they have not caused it - and then continue to drag their feet on decarbonisation. ![]() The mother unnamed of course is a wealthy citizen woman, and in Menanders. She believed that women had not only possessed the ability, but the responsibility, to shape social and political policy. Service and Sacrifice: Cameroonian peacekeeper empowering women and girls. The climate crisis is a crisis of women’s rights – all climate action must work to combat this inequality and centre their voices. One is the comment of her son, Sostratos, the other of her slave, Getas. It started 140 years ago when one woman, Julia Ward Howe, rallied women in an anti-war cry for peace following the Civil War. Home Service and Sacrifice: Cameroonian peacekeeper empowering women and girls. These women deserve a right to a safe home, food and water, an education, healthcare and to live free from fear of violence. We can highlight their stories of resilience and struggle but also recognise that they should not be in this situation. ![]() Women in the Horn of Africa are living on the frontlines of the climate crisis and battle each day against impossible conditions. This quality of sacrifice tagged to a woman, it seems has been perpetuated with a hidden agenda of exploiting the women and keeping them subjugated.
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