Human Rights

  • Climate protest
    Climate change is affecting human rights around the world in significant ways. From health to food and self-determination, here are a few statistics and facts about these impacts that further demonstrate the need for coordinated action.
  • Sheila Watt-Cloutier
    On Dec. 7, 2005, Canadian-born mother and grandmother Sheila Watt-Cloutier filed a 163-page petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights arguing that the impacts of climate change violated the ā€œfundamental human rightsā€ of Indigenous Inuit people like her across the Arctic.
  • Mercedes Garcia PĆ©rez
    Mercedes GarcĆ­a PĆ©rez is the head of global issues and innovation at the Delegation of the European Union to the USA.
  • Tia Kennedy
    Tia Kennedy is an Indigenous rights activist and youth leader in her community.
  • Michael Kotutwa Johnson
    Michael Kotutwa Johnson is a member of the Hopi Tribe in Northern Arizona.
  • Florina Lopez
    Florina Lopez is an Indigenous woman from Panama, a co-founder and coordinator of the Indigenous Women's Biodiversity Network, and an Indigenous activist.
  • Pasang Dolma Sherpa
    Pasang Dolma Sherpa has worked with Indigenous peoples, women and local communities for the recognition of the Indigenous peoplesā€™ knowledge, cultural values and customary institutions that contributed for sustainable management of forest, ecosystem, biodiversity and climate resilience for more than a decade.
  • Caroline Rees
    Caroline Rees is the president and co-founder of Shift, a non-profit organization working with companies, financial institutions and standard-setters to make respect for human rights integral to how business gets done.
  • David Boyd
    Dr. David R. Boyd is the U.N. Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment and is a professor of law, policy and sustainability at the University of British Columbia.
  • Kera Sherwood-Oā€™Regan
    Kera Sherwood-O'Regan (Kāi Tahu) is an Indigenous and disabled climate justice expert and community advocate from Te Waipounamu, the South Island of New Zealand.
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