Our Climate Justice program addresses the human impacts of climate change. As the climate changes, the prevalence and ferocity of extreme weather events — severe heat waves, torrential rains, alarming floods, extensive droughts, and destructive wildfires — are increasing. Such events drastically affect peoples’ lives — their health, livelihood, housing, access to food and water, and personal security.
We listen to understand the perspectives and needs of people most at risk due to climate change, especially when those risks are being overlooked by policymakers. Our research results in recommendations to create new laws and policies, news articles, health and technology interventions, and industry guidance to better protect the human rights of people in affected communities.
Advisory Board Member, Research Fellow
Research Fellow
Research Fellow
March 26, 2021
Health and Social Impacts of California Wildfires and the Deficiencies in Current Recovery Resources: An Exploratory Qualitative Study of Systems-level Issues
View PublicationDecember 14, 2009
Inequalities and Prospects: Ethnicity and Legal Status in the Construction Labor Force After Hurricane Katrina
View PublicationJune 1, 2008
Rebuilding After Katrina: A Population-Based Study of Labor and Human Rights in New Orleans
View PublicationMarch 1, 2007
Human Rights and Mass Disaster: Lessons from the 2004 Tsunami
View PublicationMarch 1, 2007
Latino Workers and Human Rights in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
View PublicationOctober 1, 2005
After the Tsunami: Human Rights of Vulnerable Populations
View PublicationDecember 5, 2023
Climate candor: Ridding climate cases of questionable science
HRC in the News — Open Global Rights: Climate candor: Ridding climate cases of questionable science, authored by Alexa Koenig and Baiboon Sakulkarunaarree.
August 4, 2007
Human rights abuses threaten health in Burma
Image by Ajay Karpur via Unsplash HRC in the News — The Lancet: Human rights abuses threaten health in Burma, writing about the report “The
June 28, 2007
Burma junta faulted for rampant diseases
Cho Cho Win, a Burmese migrant worker suffering from AIDS, shortly before her death in a clinic on the Thailand border. (Nic Dunlop photo) HRC in the News —