Climate Change in the Work of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Orellana, Kothari, and Chaudhry) (May 2010)

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This paper at hand comes as a realization of one of the recommendations that were given at an initial workshop in January 2009, where a group of experts on environmental law, international and human rights law and representatives of human rights organizations were brought together by CIEL and Friedrich-Ebert_Stiftung (FES) to explore in-depth the impacts that global warming could have on the enjoyment of human rights and how the human rights regime could respond to these new threats.  As a result, different recommendations were formulated as to how the human rights agenda could be promoted vis-a-vis the climate negotiations, and no less importantly, how the human rights actors could protect the most vulnerable on our lobe that will be hit most dramatically by climate change.

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