Focus: Climate Justice

The people suffering the most from the effects of climate crisis are not responsible for it.

They are not responsible for ecological destruction either because they are still children or they do not live in countries, whose decades of emissions have done their part. Nethertheless, floods, droughts and insect infestations are arriving and drastic climate extremes are increasing in intensity and frequency.

On this page, we present five films whose protagonists courageously fight against climate injustice and insist on their rights.

We also invite you to the first day of our three-day Human Rights Forum conference on 17 October: DON'T STARVE OUR FUTURE. On this day, we will examine the fundamental connections between the climate, justice and peace. 

Conference

17 OCT - DON’T STARVE OUR FUTURE

Peace and Equality as the Basis of a World of Climate and Food Security Crisis – this word defines many of the phenomena of the twenty-first century…

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Film Selection

Aya

Aya is growing up in a hut by the sea. She likes to sleep in the sand, she is in love, she picks coconuts and looks after her little brother. When her mother asks her where she would like to live if…

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The Territory

Bitaté is nineteen years old when he is elected leader of his tribe and is faced with a difficult task. The small, shrinking Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people of the Amazon are being threatened by…

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Above Water (Marcher sur l'eau)

Every day, twelve-year-old Houlaye walks many kilometers – not to school, but to fetch water. She lives in the small village of Tatis in northern Niger and is one of about 2.2 billion people…

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Duty of Care - The Climate Trials

Roger Cox is a family man, lawyer and nature lover. Until 2006, he considered climate change to be an acceptable evil. But then a film shakes him up so much that he decides to fight the impending…

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The Oil Machine

Toothbrushes, soft toys, headphones, playing cards, scissors, buttons – everything contains oil. Oil that comes, for example, from the British North Sea, where there are still several billion litres…

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12. OCTOBER 2022