The Gathering Storm #CSW66: connecting sex worker rights to climate justice

2 pm US Eastern / 11 am US Pacific / 7 pm Central European Time on March 24.

Sex workers are profoundly impacted by climate change but are excluded from many risk reduction policies and programmes globally. These issues will intensify in the coming years due to global warming and deepening divides in regards to access to the basic elements of human life such as water. Sex workers in communities across the United States struggle to access support programmes after environmental disasters and global branches of the Black Sex Worker Collective (such as in Jamaica) are centered in areas where access to potable water is almost non-existent. This panel discussion will include Black sex worker leaders who will describe their new grassroots framework connecting sex worker rights to climate justice and describe ways that Black sex worker leadership is essential in actions to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction policies and programmes.