Commentaries by Dr. Elisa Fornalé and Tamara Köhler

Climate Change Inaction and Children’s Rights

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Climate Change Inaction and Children’s Rights

Dr. Elisa Fornalé and Tamara Köhler

January 20, 2022 02:46:49 pm

Introduction: “Climate Change Crisis as a Child Crisis” On October 11, the UN Child Rights Committee (the Committee) ruled on a historic communications procedure brought forward by 16 children (plaintiffs) against Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany and Turkey for failing to prevent and mitigate the consequences of climate change (Nos. 104-108/2019). Although the State parties have [...]

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US Congress passed "starve or sell" bill pressuring Sioux to give up Black Hills

On August 15, 1876, two months after the Battle of Little Big Horn, the US Congress passed a "starve or sell" bill providing that no further appropriations would be made for the subsistence of the Sioux nation unless they gave up the Black Hills, where General George C. Custer had found gold in 1874.

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On August 15, 1824, a group of freed slaves from the United States founded Liberia. South Korea was also established on August 15 in 1948. Read the constitutions of South Korea and Liberia.