- Malaria is more dangerous for young children and pregnant women. To reduce morbidity and mortality induced by malaria, the project therefore aims at focusing the country’s limited resources on the geographic regions most severely affected by malaria, as well as on high risk populations – namely, young children and pregnant women.108 The project also demonstrates the extent to which recognising the unequal impacts of climate change, protecting the right to equality and non-discrimination, and ensuring the efficiency of adaptation policies are often mutually reinforcing. CESCR, General Comment No 20: Non-discrimination in economic, social and cultural rights (art. 2, para. 2), (2009) at para 7 [General Comment No 20]. 72 Ibid at para 1. 73 ICESCR, supra note 21 at preamble; ICCPR, supra note 22 at preamble (emphasis added). 74 See generally General Comment No 3, supra note 9 at para 10; General Comment No 20, supra note 72 at paras 114. 75 General Comment No 20, supra note 72 at para 8. 76 Ibid. 77 Ibid. (it may also include “detrimental acts or omissions on the basis of prohibited grounds where there is no comparable similar situation (e.g. the case of a woman who is pregnant) at para 10(a)).” 78 Ibid. 79 ICESCR, supra note 21, Article 2(2). 80 General Comment 20, supra note 72 at paras 27-35. 81 Ibid at para 13. 82 Ibid. 83 ICESCR, supra note 21, Article 2(2). 84 Ibid, Article 2(1). 85 General Comment No 3, supra note 9 at para 11. 86 General Comment 20, supra note 72 at para 37. 87 Ibid at para 38. 88 Ibid at para 39. 89 Ibid at para 40. 90 Ibid at para 41. 91 General Comment 20, supra note 72 at para 11. 92 OHCHR Report on Climate Change and Human Rights, supra note 10 at para 42. 93 Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the relationship between climate change and human rights, UN Doc A/HRC/10/61, (15 January 2009). 94 OHCHR Report on Climate Change and Human Rights, supra note 10 at para 42. 95 David Monsma, “Equal Rights, Governance, and the Environment: Integrating Environmental Justice Principles in Corporate Social Responsibility” (2006) 33(2) Ecology Law Quarterly 443. 96 Beverly Wright & Earthea Nance, “Toward Equity: Prioritizing Vulnerable Communities in Climate Change” (2012) 4 Duke Forum for Law & Social Change 1. 97 See e.g. International Rivers, “Three Gorges Dam”, online: International Rivers <http://www.internationalrivers.org/campaigns/three-gorges-dam>. 98 Karen Bubna-Litic, “Climate Change Impacts on the Poor – A Case Study of Australia’s Indigenous Population and the Impact of Australia’s Response on this Population,” in Yves Le Bouthillier et al, eds, Poverty Alleviation and Environmental Law (Massachusetts: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2012) at 77. 99 Ibid at 81. 100 Ibid. 101 Ibid. 71 33