Youth climate courts : how you can host a human rights trial for people and planet /: how you can host a human rights trial for people and planet. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Thomas A. Kerns.
• Authors: Kerns, Thomas A, 1942-
• Contents: Acknowledgments Dear Reader Introduction Premises The plight of the young Brief overview of Youth Climate Courts Purposes of Youth Climate Courts How to read this book Chapter 1: How Does a Youth Climate Court Work? Why conduct a Youth Climate Court? Whom should Youth Courts put on trial? Roles on the Youth Climate Court team The youth judge The question to be decided The youth prosecuting team The youth liaison for the government representative to the court Youth jury members Media organizer (for news reporters, bloggers, social media, etc) Video-recording organizer Adult advisor or mentor? But will governments even show up? Youth Climate Courts’ teeth The prosecutor’s argument The verdict If not guilty If guilty, the court’s mandate Issuing a mandate Mandate options Restorative justice process Climate Emergency and Climate Action Plan Climate-in-all-policies rule Climate Action Plan with climate-in-all-policies included Endorse Declaration on Human Rights and Climate Change Add climate language or amendment to founding document Divest city or county investments from fossil fuel corporations Artistic installations Any combination of the above Climate emergency declarations Climate Action Plans International Coalition of Youth Courts Basic steps in the process of developing a Youth Climate Court Adaptable, flexible, malleable, innovative Chapter 2: What Are Human Rights? What are human rights? Modern history of human rights Human rights as moral and legal standards Why human rights? The purpose of governments Human rights obligations of governments Tools available in human rights advocacy Telling the story Claiming moral authority with Human Rights Assessments, reports, Tribunal and Inquiry findings Exercising moral power: Inquiries, Tribunals, Youth Climate Courts The power of the moral Chapter 3: Which Specific Human Rights? Environmental Justice Right to life Right to health Right to an adequate standard of living Right to food Right to water and sanitation Rights of the child Rights of vulnerable populations The Right of Indigenous Peoples to Own, Use, Develop, and Control Traditional Lands and Water Right to a healthy environment Human Rights documents Coda: Youth interventions for an addicted world Appendices The Declaration on Human Rights and Climate Change The Restorative Justice Only Option A Note on Rights of Nature Measures that local governments should consider including in their Climate Action Plans Potential risks to youth organizers?
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 344.04633; Climatic changes -- Law and legislation; Climatic changes -- Government policy; Mock trials; Teenagers and the environment
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000508819; 9781000508741; 9781003217640
• Related ISBNs: 9781032109091; 9781032109060
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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