Step 1: Approach:
- 16 young people file UN human rights complaint on climate change.
- Climate change tackling the greatest human rights challenge of our time.
Step 2: Research:
- On September 29, 2019, 16 kids from around the world in New York made a complaint about climate change with the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the child. It shows how five regional leaders Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, and Turkey have know about the risks of climate change for decades. As well how they are falling to curb emissions while continuing to promote fossil fuels. The young petitioners are between the ages of 8 and 17 and are from different parts of the world. Their making complaints on how climate change has made an impact in their lives through death, loss of neighbors from wildlife or flooding, threats to traditional ways of life, significant health hazards like diseases which are caused from air pollution, droughts, and poisoned marine life.
- What they're doing to solve the issue: The young petitioners gathered in New York to participate in a press conference which was hosted by UNICEF and it introduced the petition and their demands. Attending various different events surrounding climate week, global climate strikes, and the United Nations Climate Action Summit.
- Who are they targeting? Committee on the Rights of th Child. This committee monitors the implemenntation of the Convention of the rights of the child, protecting human rights of children around the globe. This was sighned by every country in the world except the United States. They could have agreed to communications procedure that gives the committe the authority to receive legal complaints from children whose rights have been violated.
- What is it? The committee is made up of 18 independent child rights experts and it determines if the complaint is admissible which then they gather information from the contries that made the complain. This petition calls on states to take binding international cooperative action to limit global warming to the levels identified by science. Using expert analysis and personal narratives to demonstrate how the effects of climate change have violated each petitioners human rights by threatening their physical survival.
Step 3: Analysis
Strengths:
- The thing that makes it special is the group of kids fighting for climate change through their human rights.
- Through protesting and speaking out to the big organizations so their voice could be heard.
- they are targeting the bigger organization.
- each of the petitoners has a story through cliamte change and how its impacted them.
- how they could protect children around the globe facing these natural distasters through a committee group.
Limitations:
- they're not giving ideas or thoughts on how people could create a change in their community with the big climate change debate.
- They could have more stories on this children and maybe show what these kids did to move forward.
Applying it to my proposal:
- The aspect of a different groups of kids in one city made this in-powering through a big protest of children and their side of the story of climate change with their human rights.
- Even though this requires a big movement to acomplish I think getting the world out their will help others see the bigger picture.
- The overall impowering aspcect of how 16 kids got the word out and reached a bigger group of people to make a change even though their only showing a piece of cardboard