“People are suffering from climate shocks. Governments are still not taking seriously enough their responsibilities.”

Speaking to The Associated Press at Skoll Foundation World Forum, Mary Robinson praised ECHR ruling that states' climate inaction breaches human rights:

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Biden's statements of 'outrage' and his 'demands' on Netanyahu to change course are just PR cover. The US and Israel are continuing to deliberately starve Palestinians, and today US officials have confirmed that famine has started.

The senior Swiss women who went to court over climate change, and won – podcast theguardian.com/science/audio/…

Of course it is not. Israel is starving Palestinians intentionally. Mountains of aid sit outside the open prison's fences. And inside children and adults are starving to death. It is NOT complicated. It is Israeli policy.
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Delays. Access restrictions. Shooting.

On Tuesday, UNICEF's humanitarian convoy was hit by live ammunition on the way to deliver life-saving aid to north Gaza.

Our staff are safe, but the immense difficulties of delivering aid are making it nearly impossible to meet children's…

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Staff at Science Based Targets initiative have called for the CEO and board members to resign after they announced plans to allow companies to meet their climate targets with carbon offsets.

Story with Fiona Harvey 👇

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Gaza: 95% of pregnant and breastfeeding women are not getting adequate food or nutrition.

Despite challenges, UNFPA continues delivering life-saving medicines & supplies to women & girls in need. unf.pa/opt

Wishing all those celebrating Eid Al Fitr in the occupied Palestinian territory and beyond a peaceful & blessed time with families & loved ones.

This Eid comes as the people of #Gaza go through six months of one of the most brutal wars in recent history.
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'Through the bodies of Afghan women, the Taliban enforce their abusive moral and societal norms.'

The Taliban recently announced it is resuming publicly stoning women to death. After 2.5 years of abuses with no accountability, the Taliban have grown bolder in targeting women.

The British government won't release its legal advise (probably because it admits that Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza, as is obvious) but Britain will continue to send arms to Israel anyway. theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

The association of the Swiss Senior Women for Climate Protection, whose members took action against Switzerland for violating their human rights by failing to set sufficient climate targets, have won a historic victory at the European Court of Human Rights greenpeace.org/international/…

Human rights violated by inaction on climate, ECHR rules in landmark case theguardian.com/environment/20…

Ahead of tomorrow's European Parliament vote on EU asylum reforms, Amnesty EU joins 160 organisations in condemning attempts to lower asylum standards and expand detention in Europe.

This is an agreement that fails to keep people safe.

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Animators from Mexico, Lebanon and Colombia created the GRAM_palestina initiative to honor the children of Gaza and demand a ceasefire.

More than 13,000 Palestinian children have been killed by Israel during its attacks on Gaza since October 7.

European Court of Human Rights: States must take *immediate* climate action. goodlaw.social/3d13

Gerry Liston from Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) made an appearance on CNN today to discuss our climate case and what the KlimaSeniorinnen ruling means for the future of climate law.

GLAN’s Gerry Liston on CNN talking about our historic case and the importance of the #Klimaseniorinnen win.

Govts must urgently reduce emissions in line with the clear science-based ECHR CEDH ruling to tackle the #climatecrisis .

Arrêt Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz et autres c. Suisse - Violations de la Convention, faute de mise en œuvre de mesures suffisantes pour lutter contre le changement climatique
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CIEL's Joie Chowdhury is at the ECHR CEDH in Strasbourg 🇫🇷 awaiting the Court's first-ever #ClimateLitigation decisions concerning States' responsibility to protect people from the impacts of #ClimateChange .

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