Having is becoming more of a human right globally with this week91裸聊视频檚 European court decision that says countries must better protect people from climate change, something warming-hit residents of the Global South long knew, said former Ireland President Mary Robinson.

Robinson, who was the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, praised Tuesday91裸聊视频檚 mixed court decision as precedent-setting and change-triggering. The European Court of Human Rights saying their government wasn91裸聊视频檛 doing enough to protect them from climate shocks, but dismissed similar complaints from Portuguese youth and France91裸聊视频檚 mayor on technical grounds.

91裸聊视频淢any countries in Europe, if not all, will be vulnerable to litigation along those lines, that their countries are not doing enough to protect the human rights,91裸聊视频� Robinson said in a 30-minute interview with The Associated Press at the Skoll World Forum, a conference of ideas and entrepreneurship. 91裸聊视频淚f countries do not protect their people, then they may be undermining the human rights. That91裸聊视频檚 completely climate justice.91裸聊视频�

91裸聊视频淲e established the European Court of Human Rights to protect us,91裸聊视频� said Robinson, who was the U.N. human rights chief from 1997 to 2002. 91裸聊视频淚 think this is an interpretation of a reality, which is that people are suffering from climate shocks. Governments are still not taking seriously enough their responsibilities.91裸聊视频�

The decision brings the concept of a ensuring a safe climate to the richer, developed world, which has often been shielded from the worst climate consequences unlike the poorer south, Robinson, 79, said.

Robinson, now a top official in the group The Elders, which is retired leaders, used herself as an example of how oblivious to the problem the Global North could be. In seven years as president of Ireland, she said she never mentioned climate change. As the U.N. human rights chief she knew climate change was an important issue, but it was one that another agency was handling and not a rights issue.

It was only when Robinson started working for a non-profit she started to help in Africa that she realized that climate change was a rights issue, she said.

91裸聊视频淭he shocks weren91裸聊视频檛 nearly as bad in the richer parts of the world. That was the thing that really struck me,91裸聊视频� when she worked in Africa. 91裸聊视频淚 mean, women were saying to me, 91裸聊视频業s God punishing us?91裸聊视频�91裸聊视频�

Brazilian Indigenous environmental activist Txai Surui said it91裸聊视频檚 about time: 91裸聊视频淥ur reality is so far from here, from the global north. People listen about the Amazon, listen about the Indigenous peoples, but they don91裸聊视频檛 really know what91裸聊视频檚 going on in your land. They don91裸聊视频檛 really know what it means when we say that we are fighting with our lives, with our bodies.91裸聊视频�

91裸聊视频淲e know that this is a human right, because we are feeling it in our skin. We are feeling it in our body,91裸聊视频� Surui said during a break at the Skoll World Forum. And it91裸聊视频檚 frustrating, she said, when people don91裸聊视频檛 notice it even though Surui and others are screaming for people to notice.

91裸聊视频淲hen you people close your eyes to our reality, they condemn us and condemn yourselves,91裸聊视频� because of the importance of solving climate change, Surui said. And Indigenous people feel it hardest around the world, she added.

Robinson also highlighted a basic injustice in climate change: 91裸聊视频淚t affects much earlier, much more severely, the poorest countries, poorest communities, small island states, Indigenous peoples. Within that, there91裸聊视频檚 a huge gender injustice because of the different social roles of women at different access to power, lack of access to power.91裸聊视频�

91裸聊视频淚nequality is sapping the system,91裸聊视频� Robinson said. 91裸聊视频淚t91裸聊视频檚 eroding a sense of being humans together on this planet when you have this incredible wealth and power that goes with us 91裸聊视频� and so many people, feeling left out and and divided.91裸聊视频�

But Robinson has hope because Brazil will host international economic and climate negotiations over the next two years.

91裸聊视频淚 have a lot of faith in Brazil in addressing this, I think there is a real intent to address inequality as well as sustainability and, you know, move forward,91裸聊视频� Robinson said, mentioning the possibility of a global wealth tax. She also said world governments and banks 91裸聊视频渁re spending $1.8 trillion a year on what is harming us, mainly fossil fuel subsidizing.91裸聊视频�

Many young climate activists criticize the entire capitalistic system for warming91裸聊视频檚 harms. Robinson sympathizes with them, pointing to social democracies in Ireland and Nordic nations as a better path.

91裸聊视频淚 think we do need a fairer system,91裸聊视频� Robinson said. 91裸聊视频淲hat we have is a kind of rampant form of capitalism, which has been very extractive for a very long time, which has created these gaps of wealth, within countries and between countries. All of that is, you know, contrary to social stability.91裸聊视频�

Add to that what Robinson called a form of 91裸聊视频渞acist Christian nationalism91裸聊视频� in the United States and parts of Europe that hurts weaker people and nations. She said it91裸聊视频檚 fine to be proud of your country, but not to belittle, hurt or be scared of others.

When times get tough and your back is against the wall, Robinson said that91裸聊视频檚 when it is time to embrace hope and 91裸聊视频渨ork with what you91裸聊视频檝e got and you try to make the difference.91裸聊视频�

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Fabiano Maisonnave contributed to this report from Oxford.

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