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Environmental Justice

Collected by: Tufts University

Archived since: Jul, 2016

Description:

This collection contains websites, media, blogs, and social media feeds of citizen groups and organizations that deal with environmental justice issues. The collection focuses primarily on the United States, with an emphasis on the Boston area and the Northeast. In addition to sites covering environmental justice issues broadly, the collection contains topical subgroups focused on the City of Boston & Greater Boston; indigenous peoples; housing & urban issues; women; food justice; and water justice. Sites were identified by searching a series of topical keywords; by following related links from websites and Facebook “Liked by” pages; and by students in two Fall 2016 courses researching topics in environmental justice. Sites hosted at other educational institutions or governmental sites that otherwise meet the selection criteria are not included.

Subject:   Society & Culture Science & Health Environmental justice

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Title: GenderCC - Women for Climate Justice

URL: http://gendercc.net/home.html

Description: GenderCC – Women for Climate Justice is a global network of organisations, experts and activists working for gender equality, women’s rights and climate justice.

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Subject:   Climate change Women political activists Women's rights

Title: Facts About Women and the Water Crisis

URL: http://water.org/water-crisis/womens-crisis/

Description: This webpage details the global "sanitation crisis" and explains the need for women to have proper access to sanitation in order to gain adequate educational access.

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Subject:   Sanitation Water Women

Title: Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network, WECAN

URL: http://wecaninternational.org/

Description: WECAN is a climate justice-based initiative established to unite women worldwide as powerful stakeholders in sustainability solutions, policy advocacy, and worldwide movement building for social and ecologic justice. It engages women grassroots activists, Indigenous and business leaders, scientists, policy makers, farmers, academics and culture-shapers in collaboration with the goal of stopping the escalation of climate change and environmental and community degradation.

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Subject:   Climate change Women political activists

Title: WEDO

URL: http://wedo.org/

Description: WEDO is a global women's advocacy organization established in 1991 that advocates for a just and sustainable future.

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Subject:   Sustainable development Women political activists

Title: Women in Transit: Analyzing Gender for Transportation Justice

URL: http://www.honolulutraffic.com/womenintransit.pdf

Description: A report that "examines the implications and challenges of a gender analysis in order to achieve greater social equity for all communities in regard to transportation. Through a review of data, travel patterns, existing national and international programs and personal stories, the report presents key recommendations that underscore the need for balanced solutions that incorporate affordability, reliability and flexibility." Written by the Women’s Foundation of California and Odyssey, a statewide transportation advocacy organization seeking to improve access and mobility choices for all Californian, and made available on the website of Honolulu Traffic.

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Subject:   Local transit accessibility Urban transportation Women

Title: Women More Vulnerable Than Men to Climate Change

URL: http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2012/women-vulnerable-climate-change.aspx

Description: This publication from the Population Reference Bureau asserts that women are, in many ways, more vulnerable to climate change than their male counterparts. In the text, there is an in-depth explanation of the factors that contribute to this inequity, which include limited educational access for women, poverty and issues of fertility.

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Subject:   Climate change Women and the environment

Title: Climate Justice & Women's Rights

URL: http://www.womenandclimate.org/

Description: In August 2014, nearly 100 grassroots leaders and representatives from environmental and women’s funds gathered for an international Summit on Women and Climate Change, hosted by Global Greengrants Fund, the International Network of Women’s Funds and the Alliance of Funds. A report was written to facilitate collaboration between women's and environmental movements. This site presents that report and some of the guidance found within.

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Subject:   Climate change Women and the environment

Title: If You Really Care About Environmental Justice, You Should Care About Reproductive Justice!

URL: https://nwlc.org/resources/if-you-really-care-about-environmental-justice-you-should-care-about-reproductive-justice/

Description: This page from the National Women's Law Center draws parallels between the environmental justice and reproductive justice movements and explains why each impacts the other. The page explains that threats to the environment often pose direct threats to reproductive health, and asserts that the goals of the environmental justice and reproductive justice movements have large areas of overlap.

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Subject:   Reproductive rights

Title: ‘Water, Water Everywhere’: Racial Inequality and Reproductive Justice in Detroit

URL: https://rewire.news/article/2014/07/22/water-water-everywhere-racial-inequality-reproductive-justice-detroit/

Description: This article from Rewire discusses the issues of reproductive and environmental injustice that faced many women, particularly women of color, during the 2013 water shut-offs in Detroit, MI. The article has examples of women who were adversely impacted by the shut-offs, and explains that many citizens in Detroit who could not afford to pay for their water were met with cruelty and shame rather than compassion. In addition, the harmful impacts of the shut-offs also caused women in Detroit to suffer from reproductive health-related complications.

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Subject:   Detroit (Mich.) Reproductive rights Water

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