Indigenous women will discuss how climate change may increase and fuel violence against them, and the strategies they are pursuing to restore safety in their communities. When unsustainable development takes and damages indigenous land and resources, whether through extraction, deforestation, environmental degradation, tourism, or otherwise, it not only contributes to global climate instability but also can adversely impact Indigenous women and their communities by, for example, forcing their relocation; impairing their subsistence hunting, fishing, and gathering; and increasing their vulnerability to violence. Climate policies must address Indigenous women’s needs and the enjoyment of their human rights.
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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES & MATERIALS
Alaska Native Women's Resource Center Newsletter
National Indigenous Women's Resource Center, Restoration Magazine
IPV in Hawaii:
https://health.hawaii.gov/fhsd/files/2019/02/IPV-Fact-Sheet_2018_FINAL_01-29-19-1.pdf
North shore house falls into the ocean: https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2022/03/05/after-north-shore-home-collapsed-into-ocean-crews-work-move-property-inland/#:~:text=HONOLULU%20(HawaiiNewsNow)%20%2D%20A%20home,the%20time%20of%20the%20collapse .
Red Hill Water Contamination:
https://www.civilbeat.org/2021/12/how-the-red-hill-fuel-system-has-threatened-oahus-drinking-water-for-decades/
https://www.epa.gov/red-hill/drinking-water-emergency-joint-base-pearl-harbor-hickam-honolulu-hawaii
Housing crisis; housing shortages due to loss of land:
https://www.civilbeat.org/2021/01/its-time-to-acknowledge-native-hawaiians-special-right-to-housing/
https://www.civilbeat.org/2020/12/how-to-redefine-the-housing-crisis-in-hawaii/
High cost of living making Hawaiians move away from their land:
https://www.grassrootinstitute.org/2021/04/how-high-housing-prices-are-encouraging-residents-to-leave-hawaii/
Beaches disappearing due to climate change:
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hawaiis-beaches-disappearing-due-climate-change/story?id=80875435
Death by gun violence in Hawaii
https://maps.everytownresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Every-State-Fact-Sheet-2.0-042720-Hawaii.pdf
Drunk Driving deaths in hawaii- increase of substance use:
https://www.hawaiipolice.com/1-07-22-2021-dui-stats
https://www.madd.org/hawaii/
Co-Sponsors:
Alaska Native Women’s Resource Center (AKNWRC)
Coordination of the Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon (COIAB)
Indian Law Resource Center (ILRC)
International Mayan League (IML)
National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center (NIWRC)
Native Women’s Society of the Great Plains, Reclaiming Our Sacredness (NWSGP)
Pouhana ‘O Nā Wahine (PONW)
