Dear colleagues,
Cordial greetings!
I am glad to inform you that my writeup titled: *How climate change affects women's health* , published in the Daily Observer today.
PARVEZ BABUL, The Daily Observer, October 09, 2025 .
Link to view: https://www.observerbd.com/news/547934
Happy reading!
Parvez Babul
Award-winning journalist, columnist and researcher
Dhaka, Bangladesh
parvezbabul@gmail.com
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Climate change negatively affects women's health by increasing their vulnerability to climate-sensitive diseases, disrupting access to healthcare and reproductive services, intensifying caregiving burdens, and exacerbating existing health inequalities, particularly for women in low- and middle-income countries.
Impacts include higher rates of heat-related illnesses, adverse pregnancy outcomes, food insecurity, and mental health challenges.
In addition, women's reproductive health in coastal districts is jeopardized by climate change. It exacerbated by calamities, endangered women and girl's health in many ways.
Those impacts include increased salinity from rising sea levels contaminating drinking water and causing gynecological infections and pregnancy complications, like pre-eclampsia. It disrupted access to menstrual hygiene products due to water scarcity and climate-induced displacement. Elevated risks of gender-based violence, child marriage, and unsafe abortions as economic and social pressures intensify.
A general decline in access to vital healthcare services during climate-related emergencies and migration.
Over 42 million people live in Bangladesh's 19 coastal districts, which are under severe threat from climate change. According to the study of Asian Development Bank (ADB) and others, rising sea levels, salinity, and other impacts could displace 20 million people in the coastal region by 2050. to read full article:
https://www.observerbd.com/news/547934
*PARVEZ BABUL*
- *Executive Editor:* *News Now Bangla *; Columnist to the mainstream English newspapers include the Daily Star, Daily Observer, Business Post among others;
- *Feminist Foreign Policy Fellow of IMPRI and Asia Foundation *
- *General Secretary: Bangladesh Association for Social Communication (BASCOM);*
- *Radio/ Audio and Video Storyteller, Award-winning Journalist, Poet, Author, Environment Activist. *
- *Founding member of Zero Waste Journalists Network, GAIA, Asia Pacific; *
- *Expertise:* Project Management, Public Relations, Strategic Communications and Media consultant. My write up incorporated in the text curriculum at the *Connecticut University, America.* Title: *Women Food Security and Climate Change in Bangladesh; *
- *Media Fellow: **ICIMOD Nepal; IDRC Canada; Asia-Europe Foundation-Singapore; Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), USA; GAIA Asia Pacific; * *PANOS South Asia, Nepal; *and other globally reputed organizations;
- *Participation*: *COP 22 of UNFCCC in Morocco, 2016*; International Conferences on Environment, Climate Change, Migration, Women, Disasters at home and abroad.
- Cell phone and WhatsApp: : + 88-01711-802013;
- Email: parvezbabul@gmail.com ; parveyzbabul@yahoo.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parvez.babul
HIFA profile: Parvez Babul is a health journalist in Bangladesh and write articles on health, nutrition, gender, women's empowerment, climate change and development issues in national international newspapers. His book: Women's Empowerment, Food Security and Climate Change has been published in February this year. He is the Convener of Bangladesh Climate Change Journalists Forum. He has been working to improve health and nutrition situation of the women and children in Bangladesh through working with an international voluntary organization. Parvez Babul welcomes email from the members of HIFA at: parvezbabulATyahoo.com, parvezbabul AT gmail.com