Interlocking crises including economic crises, conflicts, and climate change are intensifying gender-based violence with marginalized women facing disproportionate and multiple forms of intersecting discrimination.
Climate change and environmental degradation increase the risks of violence against women and girls due to displacement, resource scarcity and food insecurity, and disruption to services for survivors:
It is estimated that 80 per cent of people displaced by climate change are women.
After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the rate of rape among displaced women displaced rose 6 times the baseline rate in Mississippi for that year.
Following the Canterbury earthquake, New Zealand police reported a 53% rise in domestic violence.
In Ethiopia there was an increase in girls sold into early marriage in exchange for livestock to help families cope with the impacts of prolonged droughts.
Nepal witnessed an increase in trafficking from an estimated 3,000-5,000 annually in 1990 to 12,000-20,000 per year after the 2015 earthquake.
Humanitarian contexts have a severe impact on the safety of women with 70 per cent of women experience gender-based violence (GBV) in humanitarian contexts compared with 35 per cent worldwide.
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Climate, health, and humanitarian crises fuel violence against women and girls