CLIMATE CHANGE & HUMAN RIGHTS
What is the problem?
Climate change threatens the rights of almost everyone in Southeast Asia. Our most basic right to life is threatened by the increased number of disasters, our right to health is at risk due to a rise in pests and diseases. Access to water and food will be restricted due to increased heat stress, rising sea levels and conflict over natural resources. Climate change also threatens ASEAN’s long-term economic prosperity.
Yet, despite the window of opportunity to tackle this crisis quickly closing, governments in Southeast Asia are failing to respect the commitments they made to stabilise the rise in global temperatures under the Paris Agreement.
What are we doing about it?
APHR is a member of Ecocide Alliance, a global network of parliamentarians working for the recognition of the crime of Ecocide.
Relevant Publications
Rights of indigenous peoples and local communities must be the focus of climate change solutions
BANGKOK - The rights of indigenous peoples and local communities must be put at the center when discussing urgently needed solutions to the ongoing climate crisis, lawmakers, civil society members, and experts said in the first ever conference on the role of...
Parliamentarians and civil society demand political unity to tackle the impact of the climate emergency in Malaysia
JAKARTA - Malaysia urgently needs political unity across the board to recognize and tackle the deleterious impact of climate change in the country, Members of Parliament (MPs) and representatives of civil society organizations said during an event hosted by ASEAN...
Southeast Asian MPs urge ASEAN economic ministers to immediately tackle food crisis
JAKARTA - As food and fuel prices are rising at alarming rates throughout the world, Parliamentarians from Southeast Asia are urging the economic ministers of their countries to gather in an emergency summit and agree on measures to tackle impending food shortages and...
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