Factsheet: Gender Dimensions of Climate Change
Rural, indigenous people live in two simultaneous situations. While they have highly developed capabilities for management of biodiverse natural resources, they are lodged in a discriminated, excluded existence, away from the centre stage of economic and technological change. Their ecological systems are largely stressed by corporate control of resources, coupled with a general disregard of their knowledge.
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Geographic coverage:
Asia and the Pacific
India
Subject areas:
Economic empowerment
Gender equality and women’s empowerment
Human rights
Productive resources
Resource type(s):
Position papers
Publication year
2011
Number of pages
2
Publishing entity/ies:
United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)
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