Displacement & Migration

Articles  ⎸ Books  ⎸ Briefing Papers  ⎸ Legal Instruments  ⎸ Reports  ⎸ Working Papers

Articles

Derek R. Bell, Environmental Refugees: What Rights? Which Duties?, 10 Res Publica 135–152 (2004)

Julie Koppel Maldonado et al., The impact of climate change on tribal communities in the US: displacement, relocation, and human rights, 120 Climatic Change 93–106 (2013)

Owen Holland-Cordes, The Sinking of the Strait: The Implications of Climate Change for Torres Strait Islanders’ Human Rights Protected by the ICCPR, 9 Melbourne Journal of International Law 405–438 (2008)

Policy Briefs and Reports

Rabab Fatima, Anita Jawadurovna Wadud and Sabira Coelho, Human Rights, Climate Change, Environmental Degradation and Migration: A New Paradigm, Issue in Brief: Issue No 8 (Mar 2014)

Jane McAdam and Marc Limon, Human rights, climate change and cross-border displacement: the role of the international human rights community in contributing to effective and just solutions (Universal Rights Group, Aug 2015)

Reports

CARE Climate Change and Resilience Platform (CCRP), Evicted by Climate Change-Confronting the gendered impacts of climate-induced displacement (2020)

GI-ESCR, Local struggles for housing rights in the context of climate change, urbanization and environmental degradation (2020)

Chaloka Beyani, Climate change adaptation: A human rights based framework for internal displacement necessary (United Nations) (2011)

Chaloka Beyani, Protection of and assistance to internally displaced persons (United Nations) (2011)

The Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement, Climate Change and Internal Displacement (Brookings Institution) (2014)

Falling through the Cracks: A Briefing on Climate Change, Displacement, and International Governance Frameworks (Environmnental Justice Foundation) (2014)

Jane McAdam & Marc Limon, Human Rights, climate change and cross-border displacement: the role of the international human rights community in contributing to effective and just solutions (Universal Rights Group) (2015)

Raquel Rolnik, Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context, Addendum, Mission to Maldives (UN Human Rights Council) (2010)

Raquel Rolnik, Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context (UN Human Rights Council) (2010)

OHCHR study on the relationship between climate change and human rights (UN Human Rights Council) (2013)

World Disasters Report 2014 – Focus on Culture and Risk (International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies) (2014)