#HRC55 | The United Nations Human Rights Council has appointed Elisa Morgera (Italy), as Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change

#Climatechange is causing irreparable damage to both humans and the environment. The #ICJ must address this environmental crisis ‼️

#ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ

Today, let's celebrate women's global achievements and amplify their voices, especially on platforms like the #ICJ .

Let's advocate for inclusion and address concerns of marginalised women.

Happy International Women's Day! 💪🚺

#IWD2024 #BreakTheBias #ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ

11/ 📚Samira Ben Ali of World's Youth for Climate Justice: youth advocates hope that States will draw from the Handbook: wy4cj.org/handbook
Also mentions relevance of Maastricht Principles with regards to States' obligation to protect #HumanRights of future generations rightsoffuturegenerations.org

10/ Samira Ben Ali of World's Youth for Climate Justice describes the crucial role that youth played to pave the path to this advisory opinion, highlights that youth prepared a legal handbook to inform States' submission and highlights importance of reflecting intergenerational justice in submissions

8/ 🇺🇳UN Special Rapporteur David Boyd SREnvironment now addresses diplomats, building a compelling case for the need to address climate change on the basis of #HumanRights obligations of States, providing a powerful testimony of harms affecting peoples around the world

7/ Amb. Rui Macieira of 🇵🇹Portugal highlights importance for States to make a difference by submitting written input to the Court within a month and highlights that many States, Portugal included, have already done so in the advisory proceedings ongoing at ⚖️🌊International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

Joie Chowdhury Center for International Environmental Law Sumbue Antas Vanuatu UN Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change Pacific Islands Climate Action Network (PICAN) GENeva Environment Network Costa Rica @ the UN Cancillería Costa Rica 🇨🇷 Costa Rica ONU Ginebra World's Youth for Climate Justice 6/ Amb. Rui Macieira of 🇵🇹Portugal welcomes the initiative towards the #ICJAO4Climate led by Vanuatu to accelerate climate action, raise ambition & promote #ClimateJustice and solidarity, refers to constitutional protection of right to healthy environment in Portugal

“A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to solidify consensus on #climatechange obligations.”

With a crucial deadline on 22 March, the briefing highlights importance of putting forward #climatejustice in arguments & shows wide availability of resources for States who need assistance.

📢VIRTUAL BRIEFING: Hear from Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change and others why NOW is the time for #CivilSociety to engage in the CIJ_ICJ Advisory Opinion ( #ICJAO ) process on #ClimateJustice !⚖️

🗓️ Thu 22 Feb
⏰9:00 and 16:00 CET
✏️Signup #1: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

✏️Signup #2: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Event incoming ! 👀

Come join us this Wednesday for a diplomatic briefing on the importance of submissions to the CIJ_ICJ advisory opinion on States’ obligations in relation to climate ! #ICJAO

🗣 𝙅𝙤𝙞𝙣 𝙪𝙨: 🇻🇺Vanuatu, 🇨🇷 CostaRica, 🇵🇹 Portugal and @CIEL_tweets will host diplomatic briefing in Geneva re: importance of submissions to CIJ_ICJ's advisory proceedings on States' obligations in climate context (in person only)
📄Concept note: drive.google.com/file/d/1WMA0k6…
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🔴 La Catalogne vient de promulguer l’état d’urgence sécheresse à Barcelone et ses alentours après trois ans d’intense aridité. Une situation renforcée par le changement climatique qui oblige 6 millions d’habitants et d’agriculteurs à des restrictions.
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Young people must be heard at the #ICJ !

#ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ

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🔴 Décision de la Cour internationale de justice sur la plainte de l’Afrique du Sud contre Israël

Notre réaction 👉 bit.ly/3Ud1Znm

The ICJ's written order and separate opinions will be released shortly. But my first reaction is that this is a big win for Palestinian advocates. Some will be disappointed that the Court stopped short of ordering a ceasefire. But... 🧵

🌍Exciting news! Michael O'Flaherty from 🇮🇪 is the new European Commissioner for Human Rights at @CoE. CIEL welcomes him. As environmental crises threaten the #HumanRights of Europeans, we count on his support towards the effective protection of the right to a healthy environment. 🧵👇

📌 Several critical calls for inputs to inform the work of 🇺🇳 UN #humanrights institutions in the context of climate-related threats & #ClimateJustice
🗣️Have you say to inform upcoming reports on scope of States' obligations
📝all questionnaires: ohchr.org/en/calls-for-i…

🚨 Nouvelle révélation : BNP Paribas Group impliqué dans un nouveau prêt de 3 milliards de $ pour eni, géant italien des énergies fossiles ! 🌍

Agissons ensemble pour exiger de BNP des engagements clairs et concrets, pas des promesses vides 👉 affaire-bnp.fr