Join a powerful, unprecedented alliance for better eye health for all.
Join IAPBThe United Nations (UN) Friends of Vision will host a panel in the margins of the 66th Commission for the Status of Women. The theme of this year’s CSW is “Achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction policies and programmes”.
Climate change and eye health are linked in a cause-and-effect cycle that threatens to undo decades of progress in global health and leave vulnerable populations of women and girls at risk of being left behind. The economic, social, and cultural norms that make women and girls in low and middle-income countries more susceptible to poverty, are the same factors that put them at greater risk of vision impairment and climate change related events.
Conversely, the impacts of climate change and vision impairment, perpetuate the cycle of socioeconomic marginalization of women and girls and impede progress towards gender equality. The event will focus on the intersection between vision, gender and climate change and our call for the urgent need to dismantle structural and sociocultural barriers that contribute to keeping women and girls trapped in poverty and disproportionately vulnerable to vision impairment and climate change.
This webinar covers applying an intersectionality lens – the way factors such as race, class, gender, and other identities combine to affect lived experiences differently – to ensure we illuminate, track and monitor inequities in eye health.
Sumrana Yasmin explains why gender equity is important in eye care.
Geraldine Byrne Nason, Ireland's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, on why it's important we place women and girls at the centre of eye health.
