Exploring the effects of pronatalist views on women's rights and population expansion, highlighting the significance of empowering women to make their own choices rather than enforcing restrictive policies like China's one-child rule. The discussion delves into the complexities of challenging deeply ingrained cultural and religious norms to advance women's empowerment and liberation.
Reparations provide legal rights.
So argues lawyer and humanitarian, Esther Afolaranmi. Esther is the founder of the Golden Love and Hands of Hope Foundation in Nigeria, working on women’s liberation, girls’ education and lobbying the UN to meet the climate pledges promised at COP meetings. Esther joins me to discuss the links between climate, family planning, social justice and explains the corruption in Nigeria preventing the country from moving past the legacies of extraction and colonialism.
Esther explains that climate reparations are not about money, but about granting equal legal rights to the world’s most vulnerable communities. She also says that as long as unethical leaders break the promises made at climate conferences, those communities will be forced to take more desperate action to secure their futures.
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