Human Rights
Effects on specific rights[edit]
- The right to life
- The right to adequate food
- The right to water
- The right to health
- The right to adequate housing
- The right to a healthy environment
- The right to privacy, family, and home
- The right to culture
Effects on specific groups[edit]
- Climate change will exacerbate existing health risks and undermine support structures that protect children from harm.[1] The health burden of climate change (e.g. malnutrition, infant and child mortality and morbidity) will primarily be borne by children in the developing world.[2] Likewise, increased stress on livelihoods will hinder their right to education.[3] For more information, please read: General Comment No. 15 (2013) of the Committee on the Rights of the Child.
- Women are especially exposed to climate change-related risks due to existing gender discrimination, inequality and inhibiting gender roles.[4] It is established that women, particularly elderly women and girls, are affected more severely and are more at risk during all phases of weather-related disasters: risk preparedness, warning communication and response, social and economic impacts, recovery and reconstruction.[5] For more information, please read: General Recommendation No. 37 (2018) of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.
- Climate change poses a serious threat to indigenous peoples, who often live in marginal lands and fragile ecosystems which are particularly sensitive to alterations in the physical environment.[6] Climate change-related impacts have already led to the relocation of Inuit communities in polar regions and affected their traditional livelihoods.[7] Indigenous peoples inhabiting low-lying island States face similar pressures, threatening their cultural identity which is closely linked to their traditional lands and livelihoods.[8]
Venues[edit]
- African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
- European Court of Human Rights
- Inter-American Human Rights System
- UN Human Rights Committee
Cases[edit]
- Advisory Opinion OC-23/17 on the Environment and Human Rights (2017) - Inter-American Human Rights System
- Cordella and Others v. Italy - European Court of Human Rights
- Fadeyeva v. Russia - European Court of Human Rights
- In Re Greenpeace Southeast Asia and Others - Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines
- Indigenous Communities of the Lhaka Honhat Association (Our Land) v. Argentina - Inter-American Human Rights System
- López Ostra v. Spain - European Court of Human Rights
- Marangopoulos Foundation for Human Rights (MFHR) v. Greece - European Committee on Social Rights
- Öneryildiz v. Turkey - European Court of Human Rights
- Saramaka People v. Suriname - Inter-American Human Rights System
- Sarayaku v. Ecuador - Inter-American Human Rights System
- Taşkın and Others v. Turkey - European Court of Human Rights
- Tătar v. Romania - European Court of Human Rights
- UN Human Rights Committee Views Adopted on Teitiota Communication
- Yanomami v. Brazil - Inter-American Human Rights System
- Youth for Climate Justice v. Austria, et al. - European Court of Human Rights
Articles[edit]
- Human Rights and Climate Change: What Role for the European Convention on Human Rights? EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS, 2 MARCH 2021
- Plugging the enforcement gap: The rise and rise of human rights in climate change litigation. Savaresi, Jan 31, 2021, Questions of International Law.
- HUMAN RIGHTS ARGUMENTS INCREASINGLY DEPLOYED IN CLIMATE CHANGE LITIGATION. Herbert Smith Freehills Legal Briefing, 30 July 2020.
- Climate litigation and human rights: averting the next global crisis. Cesar Rodriguez Garavito, Open Global Rights, June 26, 2020.
- Climate change and human rights – Can the courts fix it? Kling, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, 2019.
Scientific papers[edit]
- The use of human rights law in climate change litigation: inquiring human rights obligations of States in the context of climate change; and the use of human rights law in Urgenda and other climate cases. 2019.
- Climate Change Litigation and Human Rights: Pushing the Boundaries. Savaresi et al. 2019.
- Linking Climate Litigation and Human Rights. Marilyn Averill, 2009.
- Climate Change and International Human Rights Litigation: A Critical Appraisal. Posner, 2007.
Other[edit]
- Climate change litigation and human rights arguments: Stocktaking and a look at the future. Workshop, May 2021.
- Database of human rights climate cases
- Joint statement by five treaty bodies in relation to the United Nations Climate Action Summit (2019)
- IOM Environmental Migration Portal
Organizations
- Climate Litigation Accelerator at the Center for Human Rights & Global Justice of NYU School of Law
References[edit]
- ↑ UN General Assembly. Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the relationship between climate change and human rights. A/HRC/10/61. 15 January 2009, p. 16.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ IPCC AR4 WGII, p. 398.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ UN General Assembly, A/HRC/10/61, p. 17.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid.