A group of eight Torres Strait Islander people have made international legal history after the UN Human Rights Committee found that the Australian government has violated its human rights obligations to them through climate change inaction.
The decision was delivered by the committee in September and agreed with a complaint first filed by the group in 2019. The complaint was the first legal action brought by climate-vulnerable inhabitants of low-lying islands against a nation-state.
Director of the Australian Human Rights Institute, Professor Justine Nolan, spoke with The Age newspaper's Indigenous affairs journalist Jack Latimore about the landmark decision.
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