Children’s Rights and Climate Change: Australia’s Responsibilities to Its Pacific Neighbours – Useful Links

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General Comment 26 on children’s rights and the environment with a special focus on climate change

Justice Vui Clarence Nelson bio

Committee on the on the Rights of the Child

Report from consultations with children on General Comment 26

Launch of GC26 in Pacific

Children vs Climate Crisis - Communication to CRC Committee 16 children vs Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany and Turkey

UNICEF Media Release: 16 children, including Greta Thunberg, file landmark complaint to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child

Historic ruling by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in the climate change case brought by 16 child petitioners under the OPIC

Information on the International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion on the issue of climate change and human rights

Sharma and others v. Minister for the Environment 2020 case

General Comment 26 Children's Advisory Team

Climate Change and the Rights of the Child: Explaining the New General Comment 26 - webinar with Aniva Clarke

ICCPR case brought against Australia by Torres Strait Islanders concerning Australia’s failure to adequately protect Indigenous Torres Islanders against adverse impacts of climate change violated their rights to enjoy their culture and be free from arbitrary interferences with their private life, family and home

Paris Agreement

Green Climate Fund

Tuvalu Coastal Adaptation Project (TCAP)

Save the Children Australian website

International Court of Justice news on the Obligations of States on Climate Change

Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Pacific Island Students Fighting Climate Change

COP28 talks open in Dubai with breakthrough deal on loss and damage fund

The Guardian Reporting on the Loss and Damages Fund at COP28

CRC Session in Samoa in 2020

CRC Follow-Up Samoa Visit in 2023

54 Reasons website

Child Rights Impact Assessment (CRIA) tool, developed by the Australian Human Rights Commission with support from UNICEF

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Children’s Rights and Climate Change: Australia’s Responsibilities to its Pacific Neighbours

December 12, 2023

Useful links from the 24th CRC Webinar, in conjunction with Youth Law Australia, and Australian Lawyers for Human Rights.

CRC Webinars

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