Claim: Climate Causes More Young Girls to be Raped
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/05/21/claim-climate-causes-more-young-girls-to-be-raped
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to Reuters, in Guatemala, young girls don’t get raped because they are stalked by filthy perverts, who are shielded by what appears to be a rape enabling culture; Apparently Climate Change is to blame. Women’s organisations – and funders – are increasingly seeing climate change as a root cause […]
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Women’s organisations – and funders – are increasingly seeing climate change as a root cause of women’s problems
COPENHAGEN, May 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Carla Lopez remembers the first time she heard a suggestion that climate change was a factor leading to the rape of young girls.
“I was in Santa Maria Xalapan of Guatemala when a group of women said young girls were being kidnapped and raped because there was a water crisis. It was a revelation,” said the executive director of the Fondo Centroamericano de Mujeres, a women’s fund based in Central America.
In the indigenous Xinca society of Xalapan, men often kidnap and rape young girls before marrying them, Lopez said, and for about a decade, the local women’s group had been campaigning to end this trend.
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As women and girls had to walk further to fetch water, the number of kidnappings and rapes more than doubled over that period, local women said.
