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The Climate Crisis is a Children's Rights Crisis

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The youth are marching. Will governments listen?

The youth are marching. Will governments listen?

  1. 8. marrask.

    The crisis is a crisis. Meet Ridhima, a 14-year-old climate activist from India:

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    Why did Ridhima become interested in climate activism? It started with a flash flood.

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    Ridhima and 15 other children — including Greta Thunberg — brought a complaint at the UN in 2019, arguing that their rights had been violated by five countries’ insufficient policies.

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  4. 8. marrask.

    The complaint campaign wasn't successful. But that hasn't stopped Ridhima from calling out empty promises and demanding accountability.

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  5. 8. marrask.

    The youth are marching. They know their future's at stake. 📢✊🌎

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  7. 5. marrask.

    On Youth and Public Empowerment Day at , activists took to the stage and the streets in Glasgow to demand climate action. 📸:AP Photo/Jon Super

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    Swedish activist Greta Thunberg raises her fist after speaking to demonstrators in Glasgow. "Change is not going to come from inside there. That is not leadership, this is leadership," Thunberg told activists outside earlier in the week. 📸:AP Photo/Jon Super

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    Vanessa Nakate, a Ugandan climate activist, speaks at a demonstration in Glasgow; Colombian climate activist Sofía Gutiérrez holds up a sign highlighting the deaths of climate defenders. 📸:AP Photo/Jon Super

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    Climate activist Kretã Kaingang and Indigenous people from Brazil speak onstage. Indigenous leaders told HRW in October that the situation of forest defenders in the Amazon has worsened under Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro’s administration. 📸:AP Photo/Jon Super

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  11. 5. marrask.

    Youth are marching over . They know their future is at stake.

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