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Photo by Derks24 on pixabay.com   The climate crisis is posing a serious challenge to human rights worldwide. According to experts, urgent action is required to prevent further harm to basic rights, particularly as in 2025 the global temperature surpassed the limit of 1.5°C  for the first time in history. In 2025, several international institutions, including Human Rights Watch  and the European Union, underlined that climate change is contributing to a global decline in huma

Photo by @ harikrishnan ndd  on Pixabay.com Amnesty International  is shedding light on the neglected repercussions of informal settlements.   Informal settlements refer to the self-settling of populations in spontaneous locations, often as a result of displacement driven by conflict, poverty and housing unaffordability, or climate disasters . The number of informal settlement residents, estimated at 1.1 billion in 2020, is expected to increase to around 3 billion over the ne

Photo by Mumtahina Tanni on pexels.com   Amnesty International reveals that Dalit women sanitation workers in Bangladesh are currently facing human rights violations. As the country is among those most affected by climate change, international authorities have raised their concerns about this minority group’s access to water and other essential resources. Amnesty International  recently published a report exposing human rights abuses and gender-based violence against Dalit wo

Photo by Tomasz Proszek on Pixabay.com Rising sea levels are often spoken of as a purely environmental issue, but for many Pacific Island communities, they are also a fight for cultural survival, dignity, and legal recognition. The world continues to react with slow diplomacy, even as entire nations confront the possibility of becoming uninhabitable within a generation. Climate change is no longer a future threat, but a present human rights emergency, and the international sy

Photo by Angelo_Giordano on Pixabay.com On September 1st, a magnitude 6 earthquake hit the eastern part of Afghanistan . The aftermath was catastrophic: 2,200 killed, 3,600 injured, and thousands of people were left homeless . The current Taliban government faced its first major natural disaster earlier in 2022 , when another earthquake killed 1,000 people in the same region as this year.  The aid agencies working in the territory were already confronting funding cuts, worse

Photo by Danilo A renas on pexels.com   The United Nations (UN) has urged the government of Colombia to act on what it has been described as “a human rights emergency”. A recent evaluation demonstrated that the high levels of mercury in the Atrato River In Colombia are threatening the health of people living in the area. The UN presented evidence  that more than a third of the population living in the Atrato River basin has been exposed to mercury levels exceeding the paramet

photo by Markus Spiske   on pexels.com The United Nations has issued a decisive statement: environmental health is now a fundamental and autonomous human right. On 26 September 2025, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) published General Comment No. 27 (GC No. 27), an authoritative interpretation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). General Comments, though not treaties, are official interpretations issued b