Climate Change and Environmental Protection (CCEP)
The impact associated with climate and environmental conservation, and gender-based violence severely affect all people around the world, but in a differentiated fashion and with specific and open disproportionate effects to women and girls with albinism -WGA greater vulnerability to climate events is exacerbated in settings that are also affected by increased level of poverty, and vice versa. WGA not only have distinct risks and vulnerabilities, but they also have participation capacities and potential to act as agents of change in climate conservation and GBV mitigation. Climate vulnerability is more than exposure to climate-related stressors, climatic changes, and weather shocks, geographic situations that make people with albinism, more sensitive to the effects of the stressors, as well as the participation capacities of women and girls with albinism to participate in environmental conservation. Climate change and environmental degradation exacerbate the risks of violence against women and girls with albinism due to resource scarcity and food insecurity and disruption to service provision to survivors.