{"id":7357,"date":"2026-03-02T13:26:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/human-rights-institute\/?page_id=7357"},"modified":"2026-04-24T11:01:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:01:52","slug":"futures-at-stake-climate-change-human-rights-and-youth-advocacy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/human-rights-institute\/events\/samuel-dash-conference-on-human-rights\/futures-at-stake-climate-change-human-rights-and-youth-advocacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Futures at Stake: Climate Change, Human Rights, and Youth Advocacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW262428921 BCX4\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW262428921 BCX4\">As floods, fires, extreme heat, and rising seas actively reshape where people can safely live, work, and raise families, it has become clear that our futures are at stake. While recent advisory opinions from international legal bodies mark a significant evolution in international law, they also raise a critical question: how can these legal principles be made real for the communities already bearing the burden of climate inaction?<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW262428921 BCX4\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW226687045 BCX4\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW226687045 BCX4\">On <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW226687045 BCX4\">March 31<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW226687045 BCX4\">, 2026, at the Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights, Indigenous and youth activists opened the conversation by describing how anthropogenic climate change has already transformed their communities, and how their experiences have fueled organizing and leadership rather than resignation. The conference then turned to the legal arena, highlighting efforts that have driven the issuance of recent landmark international advisory opinions and how they can be <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW226687045 BCX4\">leveraged<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW226687045 BCX4\"> before national courts and legislatures for maximum impact. Finally, panelists confronted the obstacles to meaningful climate action in the United States, including corporate capture and climate disinformation, and asked how lawyers and advocates can translate recent momentum in international law into durable domestic reform through creative lawyering and advocacy.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW226687045 BCX4\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As floods, fires, extreme heat, and rising seas actively reshape where people can safely live, work, and raise families, it has become clear that our futures are at stake. While [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14986,"featured_media":0,"parent":2061,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-7357","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/human-rights-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/human-rights-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/human-rights-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/human-rights-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14986"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/human-rights-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7357"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/human-rights-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7450,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/human-rights-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7357\/revisions\/7450"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/human-rights-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/human-rights-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}