Interfaith Environmental & Gender Justice for the Human Right to a Healthy Environment

Environmental degradation is deeply intertwined with gender injustice, working as an inequality multiplier to oppress women and girls. A common aspect that we, at Green Hope Foundation, have noticed in our ground-level work is that almost every environmental disaster and climate change affected community that we work with, whether religious, indigenous or spiritual, views nature as the primordial maternal deity of giving and sustenance, but continues to exploit the environment & consequently, oppress women and girls, ignoring their human right to a healthy environment. This session brings together an intergenerational panel of women from across different faiths and traditions to share case studies of positive actions undertaken by women and girls in all their diversity in climate-vulnerable communities that utilize the teachings of their faiths and traditions to highlight the importance of adopting a values-based approach toward ensuring the human right to a healthy environment.