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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Sarah Johnson

Climate crisis is ‘not gender neutral’: UN calls for more policy focus on women

Four African women with small babies wait in a tent
New mothers bring their babies for a checkup at a UNFPA clinic in Mozambique. Access to maternal health services was badly hit by Cyclone Idai. Photograph: K Prinsloo/Arete/UNCDF

Only a third of countries include sexual and reproductive health in their national plans to tackle the climate crisis, the UN has warned.

Of the 119 countries that have published plans, only 38 include access to contraception, maternal and newborn health services and just 15 make any reference to violence against women, according to a report published by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and Queen Mary University of London on Tuesday.

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