The 28th U.N. Climate Climate Change Conference (COP) currently meeting in Dubai until Dec. 12, is being hailed as the “Health COP”––promising to bring the climate and health agenda into the mainstream. Yet we are seeing almost no direct focus on sexual and reproductive health and rights, which is a critical gap because climate change creates barriers to fulfilling those rights.
Author: Karin Watson
Karin Watson Ferrer is a 25-year-old human rights activist and designer. She was born and raised in Chile, and currently lives in Barcelona, Spain. She works especially on the intersection between climate justice and gender equality. Karin was a founding member of Amnesty International’s Global Youth Collective and Co-founder of the Re-earth Initiative. For Latinas for Climate, she is one of the general coordinators and is in charge of design and communications. You can find more of her work here