Children's Rights and Climate Justice
Discover current and past projects and related resources developed by the Global Campus headquarters and its regional hubs, in collaboration with Right Livelihood.
Climate change poses a substantial threat to the fundamental rights of children. Together with its partners, the Global Campus is developing projects to explore how climate change affects children, and how children themselves take initiative to advocate for urgently needed changes.
This 2-year project addresses the human rights and child rights challenges posed by climate change induced war, conflicts, poor governance, and environmental degradation in three key regions: Nagorno Karabakh, Transnistria, and the Fergana Valley. The project highlights the missing scientific data and research on climate challenges in these regions, and also looks at the question of how international human rights mechanisms can act locally in de facto states and regions with poor governance.
Project leads: GC Caucasus & GC Central Asia
The YOUCARE Lab (a 2-year project) empowers the young people in the Global Campus-Right Livelihood Child Leadership team to learn about, document and take action against the risks, barriers and impacts of climate change on their right to education. In this project, children are not only recipients of learning through knowledge and skills sharing, but also active participants and co-designers of outputs / actions.
The project foresees workshops for children, a crowdsourced virtual photo exhibition, a digital monitoring guide and community-based advocacy campaign.
Project lead: E-learning Department of the Global Campus HQ
The 2025 edition of the Summer School, a 10-day training programme designed for young professionals to deepen their understanding of the connections between human rights, film, digital media, and video advocacy—will feature a major focus on climate justice and youth activism. Key components will include: a module on environmental rights; a module on climate strategic litigation; and
the screening of a film on environmental rights, followed by a roundtable discussion with the filmmaker.
Project lead: Project & Training Department of the Global Campus HQ
‘Human Rights Storytelling Lab: Stories of Courage and Impact’ is a project documenting and showcasing the human rights impact of environmental
disasters on marginalized communities in Kyrgyzstan and Bangladesh.
Through ethnographic research, storytelling, and public engagement, the project will highlight how floods are disproportionately affecting vulnerable
populations (including children), threatening their livelihoods, and forcing displacement.
The projects includes a photo & testimonial exhibition in Bishkek, an expert interview with Right Livelihood Laureate Juan Pablo Orrego, and an article presenting the findings.
Project lead: Alum* from Central Asia and Asia-Pacific.
In recent years, Child Rights Strategic Litigation (CRSL) related to climate justice has surged globally. The Key Principles for Climate Justice Litigators from the ACRiSL Project—a three-year global research initiative—offer guidance on integrating child rights into climate litigation. Based on insights from litigators across four continents and engagements with young people, these principles address four key stages: case scoping and design, litigation execution, follow-up and implementation, and extra-legal advocacy.
Project lead: University of Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre &