Environmental Crisis: High Commissioner Calls for Leadership by Human Rights Council Member States
Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Author(s): Michelle Bachelet
Date: 2021
Topics: Climate Change, Governance, Public Health, Renewable Resources
Countries: Afghanistan, Belarus, Cambodia, Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Georgia, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Palestine, Philippines, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Ukraine, Venezuela, Yemen
My statement this morning will update the Council on a series of human rights situations and themes that are of concern to my Office. The following specific situations will also be addressed over the course of this session: Afghanistan; Belarus; Cambodia; Democratic Republic of the Congo; the Tigray region of Ethiopia; Georgia; Myanmar; Nicaragua; the Occupied Palestinian Territory; the Philippines; South Sudan; Sri Lanka; Sudan, Syria; Ukraine; Venezuela; and Yemen.