Climate Youths Report US Government to Human Rights Commission

Youth plaintiffs took their fight against the US government over climate change global, filing a petition with an inter-American human rights body that recounts years of alleged violations.

The fifteen young people, formerly plaintiffs in Juliana v. US, told the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that the US government has knowingly violated their human rights by perpetuating climate-warming fossil fuel production and taking “extraordinary” legal measures to quash their case.

The young petitioners want the commission to take up the case and also request a country visit in order to find the US in violation of the American Declaration on ...