Ariana News Agency-\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n world leaders should reject autocratic populists\u2019 policies; Israeli Supreme Court hearing on deportation of Human Rights Watch Israel and Palestine director; suspension of UK parliament unlawful; Egypt\u2019s government continues crackdown on anti-corruption protests; mass arrests in Kazakhstan; disturbing footage of Uyghur prisoners; and six prominent Thai activists acquitted.<\/p>\n Greta Thunberg and 15 other young people filed a potentially world-changing climate complaint. On an abnormally steamy day in New York, when sweat built on the brows of the dark-suited diplomats funneling into the United Nations for a major climate summit, the group of teens cranked up the heat even further.<\/p>\n Having delivered an emotional speech at the opening of the UN Climate Summit in which she accused world leaders of inaction over the global climate crisis 16 year old climate activist Greta Thunberg joined 14 other children from around the world to lodge a landmark complaint under the UN convention on the rights of the child.<\/p>\n World leaders\u2019 failure to address the climate breakdown violates the convention and endangers children\u2019s lives, the children argued.<\/p>\n They announced that they\u2019re suing five of the world\u2019s major carbon polluters on the grounds that the countries are violating their rights as children. If the suit is successful, the United Nations would classify the climate crisis as a children\u2019s rights crisis.<\/p>\n And more importantly, it would compel Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, and Turkey\u2014the five countries named in the suit\u2014to work with other nations to forge binding emissions\u2019 reduction targets, a sharp change from current international efforts that have so far basically rearranged the deck chairs on the Titanic.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is all wrong, I shouldn\u2019t be up here,\u201d Thunberg said, addressing the General Assembly and shaking with rage. \u201cI should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. You have stolen my dreams, my childhood with your empty words. We will not let you get away with this. Right here, right now is where we draw the line.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Children from around the globe file landmark complaint against world leaders for violating their rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_mat_hreflang_tags":[],"addvideo":"","video_duration":"","farsit":"","target":"0","top_stories":"0","top":"0"},"categories":[306],"tags":[630,184],"class_list":["post-4049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-rights","tag-climate-crisis","tag-un"],"acf":{"myctype":"change","target":false,"top_stories":false,"top":false,"farsit":""},"yoast_head":"\n