Webinar: Climate change and the rights of children
Thank you for your interest in the Diplomacy Training Program’s Child Rights webinar series, in partnership with Youth Law Australia and Australian Lawyers for Human Rights.
Registration is now open for the next webinar in the Diplomacy Training Program’s Child Rights webinar series, in partnership with Youth Law Australia, Australian Lawyers for Human Rights and the Australian Human Rights Institute:
“Climate change and the rights of children“
When: Tuesday 24th August2021
Time: 4:00pm – 5:00pm AEST
Following on from the July webinar which featured Anjali Sharma who won a court case asserting that the Minister for the Environment had a duty of care to protect children from the impacts of climate change, this eighth webinar in our series on Child Rights will look at the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s statement that “… the effects of climate change have an undeniable impact on children’s rights, for example the rights to life, survival and development, non-discrimination, health, and an adequate standard of living” and the forthcoming General Comment on children’s rights and climate change.
Dr Mikiko Otani, Chair of the CRC Committee, will talk about the forthcoming General Comment on children’s rights and climate change, and address Australia’s contention that General Comments are not legally binding on States parties and that treating the best interest of the child as a ‘determining principle’ is not supported by the text of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and is ”inconsistent with the reference to the best interests of the child in paragraph 13”.
Solomon Islands student Caleb Pollard, president of Pacific Island Students Facing Climate Change (PISFCC), will highlight the impacts of climate change on Pacific Island countries and young people. He will explain PISFCC advocacy for an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice on climate and human rights for current and future generations.
For more information, please see the brochure