MaximsNewsNetwork: STATE OF WORLD POPULATION REPORT UNFPA, THORAYA AHMED OBAID

MaximsNewsNetwork: 18 November 2009 - UNFPA: The latest edition of the State of World Population report by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) shows that women bear the disproportionate burden of climate change, but have been largely overlooked in the debate on how to address problems of rising seas, droughts, melting glaciers and extreme weather. The report will be launched Wednesday 18 November in London.

The 2009 edition of the State of World Population report, to be launched on 18 November 2009 by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), shows that women bear the disproportionate burden of climate change, but have so far been largely overlooked in the debate about how to address problems of rising seas, droughts, melting glaciers and extreme weather.
Poor women in poor countries are among the hardest hit by climate change, even though they contributed the least to it, according to UNFPA Executive Director Thoraya Ahmed Obaid.




The poor are especially vulnerable to the effects of climate change, and the majority of the 1.5 billion people living on $1 a day or less are women. The poor are more likely to depend on agriculture for a living and therefore risk going hungry or losing their livelihoods when droughts strike, rains become unpredictable and hurricanes move with unprecedented force. The poor tend to live in marginal areas, vulnerable to floods, rising seas and storms.

Research cited in the report shows that women are more likely than men to die in natural disasters—including those related to extreme weather—with this gap most pronounced where incomes are low and status differences between men and women are high.

The State of World Population 2009 argues that the international communitys fight against climate change is more likely to be successful if policies, programmes and treaties take into account the needs, rights and potential of women.

In South America, many Bolivians are victims of a warming planet. High up in the Andes mountains...a disaster is in the making as many of the glaciers are melting at rates surprising even the experts. At risk are tens of thousands of people who rely on the water as a source of life

The Caribbean is no stranger to hurricanes, but the frequency and force of these storms have increased over the past few years. 2008 was a particularly devastating year for countries like Cuba and Haiti.

Vietnam's economy is finally thriving after decades of war. But a new and insidious enemy - global warming- is hitting this southeast Asian country, with deadly force.

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[theshaggyshow]

climate change ? do some research on it... google "hide the decline" she is a communist propagandist

[vaderkenniscentrum]

This American woman posing as Saoudi is part and parcel of the vastly growing radfem-community presently overcrowding and dominating the gender racist and male-hating UN bureaucracy. As the executive director of the UN Population Fund UNFPA since 2001and the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations she spends every last penny of the large UN Aid budgets on expense of your taxcontributions she can lay her fingers on and decide upon on women and what she consider's 'women issues' ONLY.

[WorldEcologicForum]

nice!