Leir Migration Monitor, June/July 2024 – Climate-Displaced Individuals and Missing Migrants

How the Inter-American Court Could Advance Protection for Climate-Displaced Individuals

By Felipe Navarro, Policy & Advocacy Manager at the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies (CGRS) and Fletcher School, MALD ’15.

In a piece published in Just Security, Felipe Navarro discusses protection for climate-displaced individuals in the context of cross-border displacement. The piece draws from an amicus brief that the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies (CGRS) filed in collaboration with partner organizations and academics to inform the Court’s upcoming advisory opinion on the “Climate Emergency and Human Rights.” It includes insights from Navarro’s preparation for his participation in the April public hearings in Barbados, held as part of the process of the advisory opinion by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR).

Read more of Felipe Navarro’s article here: