In order to protect clean water in the context of climate change, JAI recommends that governments (i) mobilize the public trust doctrine, (ii) guarantee the right of access to information through implementing effective and independent environmental impact studies; and (ii) recognize to right to water to be seen in conjunction with other rights, such as the right to life.

This statement presents the relationship between trafficking-in-persons and climate change, emphasizing the impacts felt by persons in developing economies.

This submission focuses on the human rights violations at Xinjiang Reeducation camps in China, where the Chinese government is arbitrarily detaining millions of Uighurs and other ethnic and religious minorities.

This statement focuses on the increasing shift to authoritarianism during the COVID-19 pandemic (the “Pandemic”), and the long-term threat to democratic institutions and human rights. There is a grave risk of leaders using the Pandemic as an excuse to increase domestic power in ways offensive to human rights.

This statement focuses on the imminent climate breakdown and grave and irreparable injuries to the right to life that are the result of this breakdown; and the responsibility of China and the United States to prevent this breakdown.

This statement focuses on the devastation of the environment in Iraq as a result of 2003 Iraq War that began with the invasion of Iraq by a United States of America-led coalition in which a combined force of troops from the United States of America, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Australia, and Poland invaded Iraq

JAI recommends that all governments commit to a global ceasefire and recommit to the principles of peaceful resolution of disputes and self-determination as the essential framework for stabilizing the climate and managing displacement in a humane and organized manner.

In order to deal with the climate crisis, JAI recommends: (i) ending government assistance to fossil fuel corporations, (ii) encouraging divestment of assets connected to fossil fuel corporations, and (iii) imposing legal obligations on corporate Boards of Directors to take into account the impact of corporate conduct on the climate.

This statement focuses on the troubling lack of accountability for the crime of aggression committed through the invasion of the Republic of Iraq in March 2003 by the United States of America. Truth and justice related to the invasion of Iraq is urgently needed.

This statement focuses on violations of international law during the Iraq War and occupation, and in particular, crimes committed by the United States of America and its allies.

This statement focuses on violations of international law during the Iraq War and occupation, and in particular, war crimes committed by the United States of America and its allies (hereinafter, the “Coalition”). The extent of Coalition war crimes warrants the establishment of an independent international tribunal that can investigate and prosecute such crimes.

This statement focuses on the troubling lack of accountability for the crime of aggression committed through the invasion of the Republic of Iraq in March 2003 by the United States of America. The failure to hold former government leaders accountable for this invasion is a grave threat to international law.

This statement focuses on the question of immunity for and impunity of government leaders who commit grave crimes under international law—torture, war crimes, genocide, the crime of aggression and crimes against humanity—and the inability to prosecute such leaders on account of their shield of immunity.

The focus of this statement relates to the continued impunity enjoyed by Bush Administration officials for their crime of aggression against Iraq and the negative implications on international human rights as a result, perpetuated by the United States court case, Saleh, et al. v. Bush, et al. (Saleh).