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Climate Change and Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner for Human rights Regional Office for the Pacific Robert Vaughan
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Climate Change and Human Rights

Office of the High Commissioner for Human rights Regional Office for the Pacific

Robert Vaughan

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"If you think economic interests are more

important than environment, try counting your money while holding

your breath"

United Nations Human Rights High

Commissioner Michelle Bachelet

A HUMAN RIGHTS BASED APPROACH

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universality and inalienability

Indivisibility

interdependence and interrelatedness

non-discrimination and equality

participation and inclusion

Accountability

the rule of law

A rights-based

approach to

climate change

demands climate

justice, equity,

respect for human

rights as well as

international

cooperation and

solidarity..

How climate change effects the enjoyment of human rights

• Climate change threatens the effective enjoymentof a range of human rights including those to life,water and sanitation, food, health, housing, self-determination, culture and development. Stateshave a human rights obligation to prevent theforeseeable adverse effects of climate change andensure that those affected by it, particularly thosein vulnerable situations, have access to effectiveremedies and means of adaptation to enjoy lives ofhuman dignity.

https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/H

RAndClimateChange/Pages/AboutCli

mateChangeHR.aspx

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Climate change in the Pacific

Climate change is created by human activity and is not an act of god.

• Communities across the Pacific region areexperiencing the dramatic impacts of a changingclimate. Stronger tropical cyclones, deterioratingmarine ecosystems, rising sea-levels, and hightemperature extremes and droughts have resultedin loss of lives and livelihoods across the region.The adverse effects of climate change are alsothreatening important development gains in thePacific States and forcing a growing number ofcommunities to leave their traditional lands. Thedirect and indirect impacts of climate changeaffect a wide range of human rights.

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What rights are effected?

Civil and Political

• Freedom of Expression - Article 19 - everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of his choice.

• Freedom of Association

• Right to life

• Self-determination

Economic, Social and Cultural• Right to water and sanitation

• Right to adequate food

• Right to education

• Right to adequate housing

• Right to work

• Right to health (right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health)

• Right to development

• Cultural rights

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What Human Rights mechanisms exist?

1.The Human Rights

Council

2.The Universal

Periodic Review

3.The UN Special

procedure mandate

holders

4.The UN Treaty

Bodies

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The 2030 Agenda

Climate Change is relevant to all other SDGs

https://www.un.org/sustainabledevel

opment/climate-change/10

THANK YOU!Robert Vaughan

Email

[email protected]

Further reading

https://www.ohchr.org/en/issues/hrandclimatecha

nge/pages/hrclimatechangeindex.aspx

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