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

Mar 16, 2023

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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