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AAP
AAP
Environment
Emily Woods

Climate change a gender inequality 'magnifying glass'

Women and girls in an area of Nepal devastated by floods are now experiencing the gendered impacts of a climate disaster.

Rates of child marriage in northern Nepal were high before the August 26 disaster, with more than a third of girls married as children, but that will only increase after the floods, Plan International Australia's deputy chief executive said.

"Climate change is like a magnifying glass of any gender inequality that already exists," Hayley Cull told AAP, a day after returning from Nepal.

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