Human Rights Watch: Rethinking Asylum on a Warming Planet
December 23, 2020
December 23, 2020
NEW YORK, Dec. 23 -- Human Rights Watch issued the following news release:
The Teitiota family from a little-known Pacific island didn't intend to become a catalyst for expanding the concept of asylum--but they became one anyway.
In 2015, New Zealand denied the family's asylum claim and deported them, despite the parents' plea that their three children's health and well-being were at risk amid crop failure, withering coconut trees, overcrowding, disease, and conflict ca . . .
The Teitiota family from a little-known Pacific island didn't intend to become a catalyst for expanding the concept of asylum--but they became one anyway.
In 2015, New Zealand denied the family's asylum claim and deported them, despite the parents' plea that their three children's health and well-being were at risk amid crop failure, withering coconut trees, overcrowding, disease, and conflict ca . . .