Climate Justice: How Can We Promote and Protect Fundamental Human Rights?

There is a dire need for climate justice for the promotion and protection of fundamental human rights. Can creating an international crime of ecocide be part of the solution to securing our shared future?

Our guest speaker, Nesha Abiraj, will speak about equipping and empowering individuals with the practical and legal tools required for national and worldwide climate justice advocacy.

The climate crisis directly threatens the physical and cultural integrity, as well as the economic functioning, of our world. It is undermining fundamental human rights on a global scale. It is an understood global reality that women and girls are facing the harshest impacts of the climate crisis.

With climbing rates of mass ecological destruction and biodiversity loss, it sets into motion a chain of human rights violations, including but not limited to extreme poverty, increased rates of early, forced, and child marriages, human trafficking, all forms of gender-based violence,…