The South African Human Rights Commission has encouraged young women to fight poverty and make a meaningful contribution to food security amid climate change challenges worldwide.
The commission hosted a discussion with female learners from different schools in the Eastern Cape on the impact of climate change on young women and the opportunities that come with it. Zukiswa Mqhakanya from the Human Rights Commission urged women to be at the forefront of initiatives aimed at reducing the effects of climate change.
“Women need to be at the forefront … and take up space. If we are talking about policies, be there to be part of the conversations and debates,” she said.City of Joburg pledges to take slain EFF councilor’s vision forward Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies.