UN urges international community not to turn its back on Tuvalu

Bikya Masr: A United Nations independent expert on Thursday called on the international community to not turn its back on the small island State of Tuvalu, where communities are being seriously affected by climate change. "Climate change is an everyday reality for people in Tuvalu, and is slowly but steadily impacting their human rights to water and sanitation," warned the Special Rapporteur on the right to safe drinking water, Catarina de Albuquerque, at the end of her first mission to the country. "Climate...

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