“For Us, Almost Everything Is at Stake”: How Students From the Pacific Took the Fight Against Climate Change to the World’s Top Court

“For us, almost everything is at stake”: How students from the Pacific took the fight against climate change to the world’s top court

In 2019, a group of 27 law students from the University of the South Pacific in Vanuatu began campaigning to take the issue of human-induced climate change and its impacts on human rights to the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Their initiative led the ICJ to issue a landmark Advisory Opinion in July 2025, which made it clear that governments have a legal obligation to protect human rights against climate change. Today, the Pacific islands …

ICJ Climate Ruling: Pacific Students Lead Push for UN Accountability

Archyde Member states of the United Nations General Assembly are currently deliberating a draft resolution led by Pacific island nations to operationalize a landmark ruling from the International Court of Justice ... Read More The post ICJ Climate Ruling: Pacific Students Lead Push for UN Accountability appeared first on Archyde.