Umyra Ahmad, International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific addresses attendees at the Peoples’ Summit on Climate, Rights and Human Survival at New York University School of Law.
Organizers include the United Nations Human Rights Office, Greenpeace International, Amnesty International, Center for International Environmental Law, Wallace Global Fund and New York University School of Law. The event aimed to galvanize the human rights movement, and related constituencies, to rally behind a global call for climate justice. At the same time, it was an open invitation for those working to protect our planet to center their efforts on communities, particularly around the people most impacted and least responsible for the climate crisis.