Posted on 08/30/2023 6:29:58 AM PDT by Twotone
GENEVA (Reuters) - A United Nations body on Monday updated a key treaty designed to protect children's rights to strengthen their hand in fighting climate change, as they emerge at the forefront of the battle to protect the planet.
From wildfires in Portugal to fossil fuel projects in the U.S. state of Montana, young plaintiffs have been taking the lead in a burgeoning number of lawsuits seeking more government action on climate change.
In the document, the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child calls environmental degradation, including the climate crisis, "a form of structural violence against children".
It says that states should provide access to justice for children, including through "removing barriers for children to initiate proceedings themselves".
"This could definitely strengthen their hand because now there's a fully articulated set of guidance that pulls everything together in one place," said Ann Skelton, chair of the committee and a South African lawyer, adding that she also hoped businesses and policy makers would draw on the document.
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Climate is natural and the UN is Evil and Nuts
Here it comes:
The Khmer Rouge is coming to America
Mao successfully used children to achieve their ends, so it’s no surprise that Leftists (Ukraine War supporters) would do the same.
"Children"???
Children need to shut up and learn the basics before trying to change the world. That ignorant autist from Sweden exemplifies the problem.
Climate Deniers will be punished. Rather than combatting evil with reason, we should push them over the edge. Perhaps suggesting Climate Change can be remedied with sacrificing ‘progressives’ into volcanoes. Worked before.
watching a communist revolution in real time
It’s already here. See Maui.
For those who don’t know, the Communist party used children as weapons against their own familys to push their agenda.
They were so dangerous, the Vietnam Communists came in and wiped them out.
Man is INCAPABLE of changing the climate!
Indeed. It’s called weather and it changes all the time!
I won't. Even if they do all the things you require ... they're still ignorant. People who don't know the basics of science (the real kind) need to shut up and learn before demanding "change".
Our "lawmakers" are, collectively, one of the most pig-ignorant and unintelligent groups of people in American history; their aides and advisors are no better. Yet they have power to enforce their stupidity upon us with lethal force. Including children in the group of powerful ignorami only compounds the problem.
USA is well past time to get UN out of the USA & to also get out of the UN.
Under the left, children’s rights now include the right to be murdered, to have your body parts cut from you to be sold, to have your body mutilated and deformed with unnecessary surgeries and medications, to be sexually groomed and molested, and to be trapped in raging infernos to be burned alive.
If you are biologically female child, you get the extra right to share your bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers with biological males who may expose their genitals to you. You get to compete against biological males in “women’ sports.
Did I miss anything?
How low can you sink, letting children do the dirty work?
UN: “Watch this.”
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