Children’s Rights and Climate Change: The Obligations of Governments – Useful Links

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

Committee on the on the Rights of the Child

Australian Lawyers for Human Rights website

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

Report from consultations with children on General Comment 26

Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Information about the 2019 Sacchi, et al. v. Argentina, et al case to Committee on the Rights of the Child

Committee response to the Sacchi case

Sharma and others v. Minister for the Environment 2020 case

Waratah Coal Pty Ltd v Youth Verdict Ltd & Ors

Children’s right to a healthy environment: an Australian perspective 2023 report from Australian Conservation Foundation

Concluding observations on the combined 5th and 6th periodic reports of Australia : Committee on the Rights of the Child

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

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

ACT Human Rights Act

Queensland Human Rights Act

Victorian Human Rights Act

Climate change, the rights of children and the duty of care webinar with Anjali Sharma

Launch of GC26 in Pacific

ALHR and University of Newcastle School Student Forum on the Right to a Healthy Environment

Australian Climate Duty of Care bill

Information on the Australian Duty of Care bill and petition

Comms Declare website

CRC Reporting Guidelines

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Children’s Rights and Climate Change: The Obligations of Governments

November 30, 2023

Useful links from the 23rd CRC Webinar, in conjunction with Youth Law Australia, and Australian Lawyers for Human Rights.

CRC Webinars

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