Impact of climate change on the health of women in Iran
Welcome to another episode of the podcasts produced by the NCRI Women’s Committee. In this episode, we discuss the issues brought up in the latest pamphlet published by the NCRI Women’s Committee, “Climate Change in Iran; women are the prime victims, the clerical regime is the main culprit.”
The pamphlet is a report prepared by the NCRI Women’s Committee for the 66th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York in March 2022.
This year’s theme of the CSW was “Achieving Gender Equality and Empowering All Women and Girls in the Face of Climate Change.” CSW calls on countries to provide effective programs and policies to reduce the effects of environmental risks and natural disasters on women's lives.
The conditions of women in Iran cannot be defined under international norms.
The mullahs have ruled Iran for more than 40 years. They continue their rule not by serving people, but by fully encroaching on the lives and property of the Iranian people and exporting terrorism to other countries.
Iran is among the world’s top ten polluting countries in terms of greenhouse gas emissions. It annually emits more than 600 million tons of greenhouse gases into the Earth's atmosphere.
The trend of temperature rise in Iran is above the global average. In the spring and the winter of 2021, the average temperature of the country was about 2 to 3 degrees Celsius higher than the long-term average, and in some areas, such as the northwest of the country, the temperature has increased between 3 to 6 degrees Celsius. (The official IRNA News Agency - July 7, 2021)
What exacerbates the impact of climate change and natural disasters in Iran is neither greenhouse gases nor industrial activities, but complete destruction of the environment through predatory policies and terrorist projects.
We are going to discuss in this episode of our podcasts not only the ways in which climate change has impacted the lives of women in Iran but worse, how the Iranian regime’s harmful handling of the natural environment and resources, as well as its inaction at times of disaster, have aggravated the impact.