{"id":73059,"date":"2025-07-25T11:09:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T02:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/25\/pacific-students-who-won-climate-case-icj-international-court-of-justice-hague"},"modified":"2025-07-25T11:09:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T02:09:37","slug":"we-were-heard-the-pacific-students-who-took-their-climate-fight-to-the-icj-and-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73059","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We were heard\u2019: the Pacific students who took their climate fight to the ICJ \u2013 and won"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a packed court thousands of kilometres from home, Cynthia Houniuhi saw years of work come to fruition with the landmark ICJ opinion on climate harm<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so nervous about today \u2026 it\u2019s going to be OK. Let\u2019s pray.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those were the quiet but powerful words of Cynthia Houniuhi on Wednesday morning, just before the international court of justice (ICJ) handed down its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/jul\/23\/healthy-environment-is-a-human-right-top-un-court-rules\">historic advisory opinion on climate change<\/a> at the Peace palace in The Hague.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/25\/pacific-students-who-won-climate-case-icj-international-court-of-justice-hague\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a packed court thousands of kilometres from home, Cynthia Houniuhi saw years of work come to fruition with the landmark ICJ opinion on climate harm\u201cI\u2019m so nervous about today \u2026 it\u2019s going to be OK. Let\u2019s pray.\u201dThose were the quiet but powerful words&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4862,"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":[41,2331,65,908,86,874,282,323,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-international-court-of-justice","category-law","category-pacific-islands","category-south-pacific","category-vanuatu","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\/73059","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\/4862"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73060,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73059\/revisions\/73060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}