We will come to human rights and climate change later in the course, and will discuss the relationship between them. But today, in the midst of the U.N. Climate Change Summit, Great Thunberg and a group of other teenagers filed a complaint against five countries under the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, alleging that their failure to adequately address the climate change crisis violated the complainants' rights under the convention. Take a look at both the Convention and the Optional Protocol to assess the likely nature of the complaint.
Here is Thunberg's passionate and angry speech at the United Nations Climate Summit today:
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