‘Climate change & vitality have pushed many older women into prostitution’ – Are you interested in that?
Paper: Covid has combined with climate change to create another facet of grit – older women, even some grandmothers, pushed into prostitution. …
“Adolescent girls are difficult to find while locked up in their homes so traffickers turn their attention to older women who need money to continue their sex trade.” … “We are still in the process of realizing the full impact COVID-19 will have on this region already struggling with the effects of climate change,” said activist Pampa Ghosh.
Several areas in the Sundarbans have been washed away due to rising water levels, causing large numbers of people to migrate due to financial insecurity and vulnerability.
Via: Marc Morano – Total climate inventory
Climate change and vitality have pushed many elderly women into prostitution in the Sundarbans
New Delhi, April 10 (PTI) In the swamps of the Sundarbans, where constant erosion has claimed the livelihoods and homes of thousands, Covid has combined with climate change to create a space another of the grim – older women, even some grandmothers, are being pushed into prostitution.
Activists say they work in the area.
Nihar Ranjan Raptan, director of Goranbose Gram Bikash Kendra (GGBK), told PTI while explaining why traffickers are interested in middle-aged and older women. “Adolescent girls are difficult to find while confined in their homes so traffickers turn their attention to older women who need money to continue their sex trade. Before that, women under 24 were often trafficked,” added Raptan, whose NGO works on issues of human trafficking, child rights and the impacts of climate change.
He said 12-13 women in their late 30s and 40s from the Sundarbans region who were pushed into sex slavery had been rescued in the past four months. And this may just be the tip of the iceberg.…
“We are still in the process of realizing the full impact COVID-19 will have on a region already struggling with the effects of climate change,” she said.
GGBK’s Subhasree Raptan said several areas in the Sundarbans have been washed away due to rising water levels, causing large numbers of people to migrate due to financial insecurity and vulnerability.
In most cases, agriculture has become unviable due to increased water salinity due to sea level rise, she said. As a result, poverty is decreasing and people, especially women, are desperate to find a livelihood because they are often the breadwinner of the family.
Cyclone Amphan, which made landfall last May near the India-Bangladesh border, is the most expensive tropical cyclone on record in the northern Indian Ocean with reported economic losses in India around $14 billion.
Editor’s Note
I was thinking about this story and how it is part of a large genre of a particular kind of logic.
Affirmation Climate change causes poverty.
Poverty causes a lot of misery for everyone.
QED, Climate change causes all kinds of human misery.
Charles
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