SADC PF SRHR researchers call for bold, child-centred climate action |11 July 2025

SADC PF SRHR researchers call for bold, child-centred climate action

Researchers serving on the Sweden-funded SRHR, HIV and Aids Governance Project of the SADC Parliamentary Forum (SADC PF) have called for urgent, integrated, and child-responsive climate action across Southern Africa.

The researchers spoke at the end of a SADC Regional Seminar on Children’s Rights and Climate Change which took place at the School of Public Health of the University of the Western Cape last week under the auspices of the African Children’s Charter Project. The seminar ran under the theme, ‘Championing Collective Child-Responsive Climate Action’.

The four parliamentary researchers – from Madagascar, Malawi, Lesotho, and Mauritius – spoke about why parliaments and policymakers can no longer ignore the intersection between climate, children’s rights, and sexual and reproductive health.

Text & photos by Moses Magadza

Media and communications manager at the SADC PF

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