19 Apr 2023

High-level lecture: "Human Rights, Climate Change and Migration. Protecting people displaced across international borders as a consequence of climate change"

From 10:00 till 11:30
Winter Garden
Natolin (Warsaw) Campus

On Wednesday, 19 April 2023, the Natolin Academy of Migration Nest organised a high-level lecture entitled:

"Human Rights, Climate Change and Migration.
Protecting people displaced across international borders as a consequence of climate change"

On this occasion, we had the pleasure to host Dr Ian FRY, UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of Human Rights in the context of Climate Change. Dr FRY gave a talk about human rights in the context of climate-induced migration. His lecture, focusing on protecting people displaced across international borders as a consequence of climate change, was followed by Q&A session with Natolin students.

The meeting was moderated by Mr Rachad YOUNES, Student at the College of Europe in Natolin, and introduced by Dr Patrycja SASNAL, Mentor of the Natolin Academy of Migration.

About the speaker:

Dr Ian FRY was appointed as Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change by the UN Human Rights Council in May 2022. He is dual citizen of Australia and Tuvalu and is an international environmental law and policy expert. He worked for the Tuvalu government for over 21 years and was appointed as their Ambassador for Climate Change and Environment 2015-2019. Dr FRY also teaches part-time at the Fenner School of Environment and Society at the Australian National University in Canberra, with a focus on international environmental policy.

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