Report on the Regional Workshop Business and Human Rights, Berlin, 5-7 September 2012, with the European Group of National Human Rights Institutions, including the Scottish Human Rights Commission
Climate change has been called the defining challenge for development of the 21st century and there is a widespread call for a human rights based approach to combatting its effects. A human rights approach to climate justice recognises and makes explicit the human face of climate change – in many cases, the human cost. As important and profound as the impact on the natural world may be – loss of species, loss of habitats, bleached coral reefs, shrinking polar ice and more – there are also
and adherence to its legal obligations under international human rights and humanitarian law....The Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights (link to Home page in English) is a sister National Human Rights Institution (NHRI) to the SHRC, and is recognised by the United Nations as an "A status" NHRI. The Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights is part of the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions.
The PICHR have made the following statement
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