{"id":13083,"date":"2020-01-20T14:27:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T05:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/20\/climate-refugees-cant-be-returned-home-says-landmark-un-human-rights-ruling"},"modified":"2020-01-20T14:27:02","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T05:27:02","slug":"climate-refugees-cant-be-returned-home-says-landmark-un-human-rights-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13083","title":{"rendered":"Climate refugees can&#8217;t be returned home, says landmark UN human rights ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say judgment is \u2018tipping point\u2019 that opens the door to climate crisis claims for protection <\/p>\n<p>It is unlawful for governments to return people to countries where their lives might be threatened by the climate crisis, a landmark ruling by the United Nations human rights committee has found.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tbinternet.ohchr.org\/_layouts\/15\/treatybodyexternal\/Download.aspx?symbolno=CCPR%2FC%2F127%2FD%2F2728%2F2016&amp;Lang=en\">The judgment <\/a>\u2013 which is the first of its kind \u2013 represents a legal \u201ctipping point\u201d and a moment that \u201copens the doorway\u201d to future protection claims for people whose lives and wellbeing have been threatened due to global heating, experts say.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/20\/climate-refugees-cant-be-returned-home-says-landmark-un-human-rights-ruling\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say judgment is \u2018tipping point\u2019 that opens the door to climate crisis claims for protection It is unlawful for governments to return people to countries where their lives might be threatened by the climate crisis, a landmark ruling by the Unite&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":827,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,326,65,53,591,86,56,282,84,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-change","category-environment","category-human-rights","category-kiribati","category-law","category-new-zealand","category-south-pacific","category-united-nations","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/827"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13084,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13083\/revisions\/13084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}