Kiribati welcomes chance to highlight climate change plight

Kiribati welcomes chance to highlight climate change plight

26 MAY 2013

The vice president of Kiribati, Teima Onorio, says consultations on legal protections for those displaced by natural disasters are an opportunity for Kiribati to focus attention on climate change.

One of those involved in the Nansen Initiative, Swiss academic and human rights expert, Professor Walter Kaelin, says people forced to cross borders by natural disaster are not refugees because they are not being persecuted.

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Source: Radio New Zealand International

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