In Brief: lawyers seek guarantees to protect activists at COP28

IHR-Advisors in the Financial Times’ Sustainable Views on 12 August 2023

Reporting on the latest news on ESG policy and regulation, the Financial Times’ Sustainable Views covers IHR-Advisors latest legal campaign to secure the rights of UK citizens attending the COP28 climate summit to be held in the UAE in December:

Human rights lawyers have written to UK foreign minister James Cleverly to ask if the UK government will seek an undertaking from the United Arab Emirates — which will host COP28 in December — that lawyers or “other individuals acting lawfully, will be able to travel to the UAE unhindered and without fear of arrest immediately before, during and after” the international climate change summit. The letter was sent following an announcement by the UAE that “there will be space available for climate activists to assemble peacefully and make their voices heard” at COP28. “There are real risks, based upon the UAE’s previous behaviour and, in particular, its human rights record, that any public protests will be extremely restricted or extinguished,” the lawyers wrote.

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