Reproductive Rights and Birth Justice in the Climate Crisis

Human Rights Watch, CHAMNHA Project at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Global Environmental Health Equity Lab at UC Berkeley, Mama-Pikin Foundation, and Wits RHI (University of the Witwatersrand) are pleased to invite you to a media briefing via Zoom at 10:00 a.m. ET/ 2:00 p.m. GMT on Friday, June 6, 2025, on how extreme heat harms pregnancy health and affects care workers. Panelists will share examples of new initiatives to provide information to at-risk pregnant people, including a climate literacy tool for Sierra Leone, a mobile phone app in South Africa, and doula training in the United States.