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Dem resolution warns climate change could push women to ‘transactional sex
• The Hill"[F]ood
insecure women with limited socioeconomic resources may be vulnerable
to situations such as sex work, transactional sex, and early marriage
that put them at risk for HIV, STIs, unplanned pregnancy, and poor
reproductive health," it says.
Climate change could also add
"workload and stresses" on female farmers, which the resolution says
produce 60 to 80 percent of the food in developing countries.
More broadly, the resolution says climate change will hurt "marginalized" women, such as refugees, sexual minorities, adolescent girls, and women and girls with HIV. It also cites Hurricane Katrina as evidence of how climate change can affect women, noting that the storm displaced "over 83 percent of low-income, single mothers" in the region.