CLIMATE CHANGES AND HUMAN RIGHTS

• Autor(a) principal: Barros, Ludmila Caminha
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Esmat
• Texto Completo: http://esmat.tjto.jus.br/publicacoes/index.php/revista_esmat/article/view/265

This essay concerns climate change, what it is and how it adversely affects the enjoyment of human rights. It describes how the climate acts as a factor of human rights violations, the citizen’s initiatives to demand their more effective actions from their governments to tackle the issue as well as the answers that international community to protect human rights in the context of climate change. It follows discussing the migrations resulting from climate events and the existing legal instruments for the protection of human right in this context. It exposes how some population groups are more vulnerable to climate change impacts than others, despite having given a much smaller contribution to the problem. It discusses the relationship between climate change and conflict, and presents the contribution given by natural resources for peacebuilding and human rights protection. Finally, it presents conclusions and recommendations.