rights and empowering women to “lead and promote gender equitable and universally accessible response, recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction approaches.”47 The OSCE, likewise, recognizes the gender-specific aspects of environmental threats, and participating States have undertaken commitments to consider the vulnerabilities of women to natural disasters, as well as to engage women, equally with men, in disaster risk-reduction processes.48 47 48 Ibid., para. 32 OSCE, Ministerial Council Decision No. 6/14, “Enhancing Disaster Risk Reduction”, Basel, 4-5 December 2014, <https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/8/6/130406.pdf.>. 16