This submission to the Human Rights Advisory Committee highlights the diverse human rights impacts of sea-level rise, with particular reference to the impacts on people living in the low-lying atoll nations of Tuvalu and Kiribati, and in relation to their displacement associated with sea-level rise and climate change more generally. It also shows how similar effects are being experienced around the world, especially people living in small island states or in coastal areas in lower income countries that bear little responsibility for climate change – including in Bangladesh, Fiji, Honduras Pakistan, and Senegal. The submission ends with recommendations to states to avert, minimize and address these impacts. Weiterlesen
Human rights as a compass for transitioning away from fossil fuels in a just, orderly and equitable manner
This submission in response to the UNFCCC COP30 presidency’s invitation argues that a just transition away from fossil fuels must be explicitly anchored in human rights law and principles; the goal of limiting global temperatures to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels; the “polluter pays” principle; and equity. It must recognize that the climate crisis is, at its core, a human rights crisis whose impacts fall disproportionately on marginalized individuals and groups and thus must be tackled as an issue of climate justice that interrogates the root causes of the climate crisis and how human-induced climate change builds on and magnifies inequalities. Weiterlesen
Trump’s anti-green stance leaves Mozambique at mercy of climate crisis
As Trump tears down renewable energy, once again, Mozambique bears the brunt of climate harm caused by fossil fuel producers. Weiterlesen
Meet four students speaking out on what they expect from Bangladesh’s new government
Here, four young Bangladeshis, united in their hope that the new government will make a break with the past, share their expectations on what it must deliver. Weiterlesen
Ellinor: “While I still have power to fight for Indigenous rights in Norway, I will”
Ellinor Guttorm Utsi, 60, is a Sami reindeer herder from Norway. The Sami people are an Indigenous People with distinct culture, languages, and traditions who inhabit the northernmost regions of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. Weiterlesen
Damisoa: we left our drought-stricken land and found new struggles
Damisoa tells his story of displacement and survival and calls for the government to take urgent steps to address the hunger, homelessness and poor healthcare faced by him and others displaced by drought in Madagascar. Weiterlesen
Chad: Authorities failing to address deadly clashes between herders and farmers amid climate crisis
The Chadian authorities have failed to protect the victims of armed clashes between herders and farmers as well as their right to truth, justice, and reparations, Amnesty International said in a new report. Weiterlesen
Saudi Arabia: Migrant workers behind the Riyadh Metro system subjected to decade of devastating abuse
Migrant workers who travelled to Saudi Arabia to work on the Riyadh Metro project were forced to pay exorbitant recruitment fees, worked in dangerous heat and earned pitiful wages during a decade of serious abuse, Amnesty International revealed in a new report today. Weiterlesen
OpEd: From an oil well to COP30
One of the girls who sued the Ecuadorian government to end gas flaring in the Amazon will attend the environmental summit to demand that the court ruling be enforced. Weiterlesen
Global: Fossil fuel infrastructure is putting rights of 2 billion people and critical ecosystems at risk
Fossil fuel infrastructure poses risks for the health and livelihoods of at least 2 billion people globally, roughly a quarter of the world’s population, Amnesty International and Better Planet Laboratory said in a new report on the fossil fuel industry’s harms to climate, people and ecosystems across the world. Weiterlesen