Rights of People Prejudiced by Climate Change

This document discusses the rights of people prejudiced by climate change around the world. It explores the impact of climate change on ecosystems, natural resources, and human safety. The document includes case studies of the 2018 California wildfires and the 2017 Hurricane Irma, highlighting the effects on human rights such as the right to adequate living standards, right to water, right to health, and more.

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Explain with your life experiences with 10 articles of human rights from the UDHR.
Article 4 – Freedom from slavery
Jenny has been living at our place since birth. Her mother has been working at our house as a
maid. After her death, we have treated Jenny with care and love and helped her to study and
exceed in life. We have not violated her right with slavery.
Article 5 – Freedom from cruel and inhuman treatment
We treat out house maid with respect and fair wage for her daily routine of work. We do not
break or initiate to violate her basic human rights with degrading, inhuman and torture
treatments.
Article 19 – Freedom of expression and opinion
A new boy joined our university with different perspective over social values and norms. He
keeps on arguing and debating over the classes and also during the lecture sessions. Some of the
students gets annoyed. My friends and I do not judge him with his freedom of different
expression and opinion.
Article 16 – Freedom to consent marriages
John and Emily had been married just for some months and Emily filed a divorce already. It has
been found in the court room that Emily was being forced to get married to John by her parents
since they did not accepted her boyfriend who belonged from other religion. Emily’s parents
have violated Emily’s human right from Article 16(1,2)
Article 12 - Freedom from arbitrary interference

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Suzy accused her step sister of stealing her money while she was away from town. Though she
never had any proof, she spread rumors regarding her step sister to the entire locality and even
went to her house with some neighbors to threaten and abuse her. Suzy violated her step sister’s
human right towards privacy and home; thus violating Article 12.
Article 24 - Right to leisure and Rest
I have been working at a retail marketing store as a store assistant for the last 3 months in the
city. Apart from one week off, the store manager does not allow me to take additional emergency
or sick leaves and even forces me to work at my day offs. I do not get additional payments but
every day I have been doing over time as per my schedules shift hours. My store manager is
violating my right to rest, Article 24
Article 25(2) – Right to similar social recognition
My brother is at the kindergarten. Johan is his very dear friend. Johan’s mother is a single mother
and he has been born out of wedlock, while his father left them during his birth. This news has
made most of the parents skeptical and they avoid Johan and his mother in school gathering. The
principal of the school has also requested Johan’s mother to look for some other institution for
saving the reputation of his school. The principal of the school and the parents of the other
children’s are violating Johan’s right and Article 25(2).
Article 26 (1) – Right to education
Some of the schools of my city has started to provide classes for the children of people under
poverty line with equal facilities and educational equipment’s at free of cost. The school has also

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initiated in reserving seats for the economically backward children in the higher education on the
basis of their merit. My city schools do not violate the human rights to education.
Article 27 (1) – Right to free participation
I have seen in many social gathering that the secretary of our city club do not allow black people
in the cultural functions. Our club secretary is violating the basic human rights of the black
people in the society and Article 27(1).
Article 23 (2) - Right to equal pay
Through out my work tenacity in my organization I have got warmth and respect at my
workplace. The employees at the organization gets equally and fairly paid in respect to their
work performances and not on the basis of any societal and gender discrimination. The
organization I am working is not violating the right to equal pay.
Discuss the rights of people prejudiced by climate change around the world.
Climate change possesses an enormous threat towards the wellbeing and the lives of the
communities and the lives residing across the world. According to The Intergovernmental Panel
of Climate Change (IPCC), climate change adversely impacts over the ecosystems, natural
resources including threat to human safety and life, environmental degradation, lack of access to
food, clean and support to human life (Tanner et al., 2015). In the dry subtropical region, climate
change significantly reduce groundwater resources and surface water affecting the right to
health, sanitation and water and right of human being towards adequate living standards.
Furthermore the projected increase in the intensity of the tropical cyclones, exacerbation of the
rise of sea level and also the degradation of ecosystem poses direct threat to the coastal

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settlements and threat to human lives. The two case studies regarding the effect of the climate
changes followed by the effect over the right of people are as follows.
Case Study 1 - 2018 California Wildfires
The fire that speeded over the Wilds in 2018 continued to burn followed by its smoke that
spread across a large are of the United States. Some of the major health related danger from the
wildfire of California came from the particular matters present within the smoke, posing serious
health challenges (Swift, 2019). The particles called PM2.5 included in the smoke posses
serious health threats to people who have been exposed to the wildfire smoke (Maye &
Crépeau,2017). Some of the major health concern that followed this natural disaster included eye
irritation, sinuses, nasal congestion, chronic lung diseases, contamination of natural water
sources and also fatal death of people residing near the affected area due to the poisonous gas.
Some of the affected human rights in this case are right to adequate living standard, right to life,
right to water, right to health.
Case Study 2 - 2017 Hurricane Irma
One of the most furious and intense hurricanes, Hurricane Irma intensified on September 2017. It
has also been described to include tropical storm force winds square mileage of 70,000. The
devastation wave created massive scale evacuation in several areas effecting millions of people
and their habitat (Brown et al., 2018). Uprooted trees, overturned cars and destroyed
infrastructures were some of the results of the Hurricane Irma. Hurricane Irma flooded the area
of down town and the other coastal communities and also huge power loss in most of the cities.
There have been the record of millions of people who endured the damage of their properties and
emotion and psychological impacts of Hurricane Irma (Maye & Crépeau,2017). Some of the

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affected human rights in this case includes the basic right to health, right to water, right to food,
right to adequate living standard, right to housing, right to property, right to life, right to
mobility.

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