Landmark Human Rights Complaint Lodged Against World's Worst Polluters

Demonstrators in Manila marching for climate justice
in November 2015.
(Photo:  Noel Celis/Getty Images)

"We want those most responsible to be held accountable. We want justice and to regain the ability to protect the little that we have left for our children."

Landmark Human Rights Complaint Lodged Against World's Worst Polluters
byNika Knight, staff writer, Common Dreams, 28 July 2016

In unprecedented case, Filipino governmental body accuses carbon-polluting corporations of violating people's rights to "life, food, water, sanitation, adequate housing, and to self determination"
The world's 47 largest producers of greenhouse gases must respond within 45 days to an unprecedented legal complaint filed Wednesday by the Philippines, which alleges the fossil fuel behemoths have deprived millions of residents of the island nation of their human rights through catastrophic global warming.

The Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHR), a governmental body, sent the multinational "carbon majors" a 60-page letter (pdf) accusing them of "breaching people"s fundamental rights to 'life, food, water, sanitation, adequate housing, and to self determination,'" the Guardian reports.

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