Alina Saba Of Nepal And Agnes Kinaka Of Papua New Guinea Reflect On Their Participation In UN Climate Summit

Alina Saba, a young Indigenous women from the Limbu Indigenous community in Nepal and Agnes Kinaka, a single mother from the Cataret Islands in Papua New Guinea, were supported to attend the 2014 UN Climate Summit in New York by the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development. In this article, they reflect on the experience of speaking to Bolivian President Evo Morales and the Prime Minister of Tuvalu. Both passionately advocated that climate change is a social justice issue. Photo credit: Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development