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Midwives See Bigger Risks, and Bigger Role in Climate Crisis

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par Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image A group of women travel during a heatwave for medical consultation to the only midwife who arrives from the mainland to Baba Island along the Karachi Harbor, Pakistan, June 11, 2024. © 2024 Rizwan Tabassum/AFP via Getty Images The climate crisis is undermining the work of midwives around the world, according to a new survey of 74 midwives from more than 30 countries done by the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM).The report highlights several hazards: from flooding and wildfires cutting communities off from midwives’ care, including deliveries…

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