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As temperatures rise, climate gains status as top threat to human rights

The U.N. human rights chief says the climate crisis is a top threat and U.S. detention of migrant children is alarming.

A Prague art installation of 34 yellow penguins made from recycled plastic bottles
A Prague art installation of 34 yellow penguins made from recycled plastic bottles (AN/Keith Dixon)

GENEVA (AN) — The U.N.'s top human rights official named the climate crisis as a top threat and expressed alarm at U.S. detention of migrant children along with grave concerns over global violence against religious and ethnic minorities.

Michelle Bachelet, who heads the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, or OHCHR, said on Monday that climate change is a scientific reality that now affects every region of the world and the projected levels of planetary overheating will have catastrophic implications for humankind.

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