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“Innovators, entrepreneurs and catalysts for transformation”: Three youth leaders on climate make the case for sexual and reproductive rights

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Imali Ngusale, Isabel Adriana Garcia Gómez and Tasnia Ahmed are youth leaders on climate and sexual and reproductive rights. © Imali Ngusale/Isabel Adriana Garcia Gómez/Divisional Youth Forum/Jawad Hossain
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ClimateEmpower: A UNFPA and ZONTA International initiative to tackle the disproportionate impact of climate change

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The ClimateEmpower project © UNFPA East and Southern Africa
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Domestic violence in sub-Saharan Africa will triple by 2060 due to extreme heat epidemic and stalling development, new UNFPA research finds

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UNFPA announces winners of cutting-edge climate change research awards

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Fighting for equal rights against the tide of climate change

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Across the world, cyclones, hurricanes, floods, extreme temperatures and drought are becoming more frequent, more prolonged and more intense. © UNICEF/Allen Stephen/Infinity Images
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28 May 2024
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Climate emergency threatens 41 million people, their livelihoods and health care in low-elevation coastal areas in Latin America and Caribbean

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Five ways climate change hurts women and girls

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The climate emergency isn't in the making – it's already here. While all of humanity is subject to the effects of climate change, marginalized groups like women and girls are vulnerable to particular adversities. Unrelenting drought in Somaliland has devastated crops and livestock production and displaced tens of thousands, many of whom have had to live in internally displaced persons camps for years. © UNFPA/Tobin Jones
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UNFPA urges leaders to address gendered, discriminatory impacts of climate change at COP28

calendar_today29 November 2023

The 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) will run from 30 November to 12 December in Dubai. © United Nations
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