My article via @nextbluestories:
The direct ties between the nature of #LakeChad & democratic stability in the region show the extent to which environmental rights are indispensable in our contemporary democracy.
next.blue/articles/integ…
The direct ties between the nature of #LakeChad & democratic stability in the region show the extent to which environmental rights are indispensable in our contemporary democracy.
next.blue/articles/integ…
As a result, if nature is left out of our democratic agenda, women & girls will suffer the most. In West - Central Africa, women & girls produce 60 to 80% of the food & work an average of 20 hours per week to get water & biomass for their households yet still have little rights..
...to own land. In #Sahel, there are more than 20 million child brides due to the vast degradation of a landscape that 80 percent of the population depend upon for livelihood. Similarly, in the #LakeChad region, there are more than 10.7million people displaced...
...by the climate crisis of which two-thirds are female. This insecurity for women is both an indicator of a threatened democracy & a compounding factor contributing to the instability of the institution in the region.
The true definition of democracy needs to shift to include the voice of the environment & not just humans alone. Read more👆
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