06 March 2024

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Short pieces:

The Complicated Relationship Between Climate, Conflict, and Gender in Mozambique (New Security Beat, Feb. 2024) [text]

UNHCR appeals to strengthen the protection of people displaced by climate change at a historical IACHR hearing (UNHCR, March 2024) [text]
- See also related video recording below.

Unbearable Heat: Climate Displacement and Hardened Borders in the Americas (Dejusticia, Feb. 2024) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

La acción humanitaria en 2022-2023: La emergencia climática agudiza otras crisis (IECAH & MSF, Dec. 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Decolonizing refugeehood: The rise of climate refugees as a new legal subjectivity," Journal of Political Ecology, vol. 31, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"Escaping the Silence: Identifying Asylum Pathways for Environmental Activists Based on Domestic Violence Precedent," Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 38, no. 1 (2023) [full-text]

"Gendered effects of climate change and health inequities among forcibly displaced populations: Displaced Rohingya women foster resilience through technology," Journal of Climate Change and Health, In Press, 7 Feb. 2024 [open access]

Human mobility in the context of disasters, climate change and environmental degradation in the Euro-Mediterranean region: Challenges and insights (EuroMed Rights, Feb. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Inclusion of Migration and Migrants in Climate-resilient Development Pathways in the Context of the European Green Deal (IOM, Feb. 2024) [text]

"Iran Faces Dwindling Water and Escalating Climate Pressures, Aggravating Displacement Threats," Migration Information Source, 6 March 2024 [text]

"Local sources of vulnerability to climate change and armed conflicts in East Africa," Journal of Environmental Management, vol. 355 (March 2024) [open access]

"Nexus dynamics: the impact of environmental vulnerabilities and climate change on refugee camps," Oxford Open Climate Change, vol. 4, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

Multimedia:

Climate emergency, displacement and migration: voices and proposals from affected communities and civil society, 29 Feb. 2024 [access]

IACHR Hearing on "Human Rights of Persons in Human Mobility due to the Effects of Climate Change = Derechos humanos de personas en movilidad humana por efectos del cambio climático," 29 Feb. 2024 [access via IACHR] [access via YouTube]
- See also related news story.

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