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UN Human Rights Committee finds Australia violated Torres Strait Islanders’ rights by failing to protect them from climate change
Australia has violated the human rights of a group of Torres Strait Islanders by failing to adequately protect them from the impacts of climate change, a United Nations committee has found.
The groundbreaking finding by the UN Human Rights Committee was made in response to a complaint filed in 2019 by eight Torres Strait Islanders from the small, low-lying islands of Boigu, Poruma, Warraber and Masig.
- Marian Faa, with wires
- ABC
Rising sea levels have already damaged food sources and ancestral burial sites on the islands, scattering human remains and putting homes at risk of being submerged, the Islanders argued.
The committee said…