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Call for inputs for a report: Cultural rights and climate change

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights,
01 April 2020, Switzerland

Deadline: 1 May 2020
Issued by: Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights
Purpose: To inform the Special Rapporteur’s report to be presented at the General Assembly, October 2020.

Background

The Special Rapporteur believes it is critical to think more broadly about the relationship between culture and cultural rights on the one hand, and addressing climate change on the other.

https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/CulturalRights/Pages/CallForInputClimateChange.aspx

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