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UNHRC adopts resolution on climate change and human rights
UNHRC adopts resolution on climate change and human rights
14/7/19
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has adopted 26 resolutions, including a resolution on climate change and human rights co-authored by Vietnam, the Philippines and Bangladesh, during its 41st session in Geneva, Switzerland.
The resolution calls on countries to increase measures to ensure the rights of the disabled amid the impacts of climate change, including their participation in the building and launching of projects against changing climate at local, national and international levels.
It also urges enhanced international cooperation in financial assistance, technological transfer and capacity building for developing countries in response to climate change.
The session also adopted 15 other resolutions regarding information technology and human rights, the rights of migrants, the removal of discrimination against woman and girls. The remaining 10 resolutions were passed by votes, including ones on human rights in the Philippines, international cooperation in human rights, among others.
The council approved Vietnam’s national report under the third-cycle Universal Periodic Review, and others by 13 other countries.
Vietnam accepted 241 out of 291 recommendations made by the council’s members, including the completion of legal regulations, measures to protect civil, political, socio-economic and cultural rights, strengthening mechanisms to protect human rights and issues regarding migration, climate change, environment and sustainable development.
The Vietnamese delegation offered constructive feedback at sessions to build draft resolutions and co-sponsored five other resolutions.
Ambassador Duong Chi Dung, head of the Vietnam’s Permanent Mission to the UN in Geneva, delivered speeches at many sessions.
Since 2014, the UNHRC has annually adopted a climate change resolution focusing on each specific theme such as the rights of children, women, migrants and the rights to health care.
The next regular session will take place in Geneva in September./.
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The resolution calls on governments to adopt a disability-inclusive approach when taking action to address climate change.
While women, indigenous peoples, and youth have successfully become part of discussions around climate action, persons with disabilities have largely been absent.
This is the first time the Council has addressed the rights of people with disabilities as they relate to climate change.
This resolution could be an important first step to remedy that gap, presenting an opportunity for persons with disabilities to engage in the conversation about climate resilience and for governments to ensure that happens.
Governments need to reach out and listen to people with disabilities, who are among those who feel, or will feel, more acutely the adverse effects of environmental change, and will be important leaders in fighting it.
The negative impacts of climate change are disproportionately borne by persons and communities already in disadvantageous situations owing to geography, poverty, gender, age, disability, cultural or ethnic background, among others, that have historically contributed the least to greenhouse gas emissions.
The negative impacts caused by climate change are global, contemporaneous and subject to increase exponentially according to the degree of climate change that ultimately takes place.
Principles and standards derived from international human rights law – especially the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the core universal human rights treaties, should guide all policies and programming in all phases of the process.
Existing State commitments require international cooperation, including financial, technological and capacity-building support, to realise low-carbon, climate-resilient, and sustainable development, while also rapidly reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
A human rights-based approach also calls for accountability and transparency. It is not only States that must be held accountable for their contributions to climate change but also businesses which have the responsibility to respect human rights and do no harm in the course of their activities.
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