Governments and environmental groups are turning to international courts to combat the impacts of climate change
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The Mapuche People v. China to Stop Construction on the Dam
The Mapuche people worked with an environmental organization to contact the UN Human Rights Council. They argued that the dam was violating their human rights to live in and make their livelihoods from their own ancestral land. Joach: "There's a very strong connection between the length of human rights and biodiversity" The strategy of merging environmental concerns with human rights law has become increasingly common, he says.
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