The Climate-Conflict Nexus and Gender-based Violence

March 7, 2023
5.30 -7.30 PM EST

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During this year’s International Women’s Day, the United Nations will mobilize the international community around gender equality and climate change. “Climate change is a “threat multiplier” escalating social, political and economic tensions that already exist in fragile and conflict-affected settings. As climate change drives conflict across the world, women and girls face increased vulnerabilities to all forms of gender-based violence, including conflict-related sexual violence (…)”[1].

To commemorate this year’s International Women’s Day, the Center for International Human Rights is organizing a panel analyzing the nexus between climate change and conflict and its relation to sexual and gender-based violence.
Some of the key focal issues to be addressed include: how climate change exacerbates existing States’ economic and political fragilities as well as existing structural and systematic discrimination against women; how humanitarian aid needs to adapt to a conflict context where access to affected communities has been further restricted and women have been excluded from any post-conflict resolution; and identify examples of frameworks and initiatives of female-led conflict resolution and post-conflict resilience highlighting the transformative potential of female agency.