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Here's how international law can protect people fleeing environmental disaster

International law is failing to protect climate migrants, and the Refugee Convention of 1951 must be amended to address this, argues a PhD Candidate in Law.

International law is failing to protect climate migrants, and the Refugee Convention of 1951 must be amended to address this, argues a PhD Candidate in Law. Image: REUTERS

Morgiane Noel
PhD Candidate in Law, Trinity College Dublin
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International law is failing to protect climate migrants, which means that the scope of the refugee convention must be widened.
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