Annex SELECTED HUMAN RIGHTS STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES RELEVANT TO EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGEa Effects Extreme weather events Examples of rights affected Right to life: ICCPR art. 5; CRC art. 6; Universal Declaration of Human Rights, art. 3. Human rights standards and climate change Human Rights Committee, general comment No. 6 (1982) on article 6 (Right to life). Inter-Agency Standing Committee, Protecting Persons Affected by Natural Disasters - IASC Operational Guidelines on Human Rights and Natural Disasters. Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement (E/CN.4/1998/53/Add.2, annex). Increased food insecurity and risk of hunger Right to adequate food, right to be free from hunger: ICESCR art. 11; CRC art. 24 (c); CRPD arts. 25 (f), 28, para. 1; CEDAW art. 14, para. 2 (h); ICERD art. 5 (e); Universal Declaration of Human Rights, art. 25. Increased water stress Right to safe drinking water: FAO, Voluntary guidelines to support the progressive realization of the right to adequate food. CESCR, general comment No. 15 (2002) on the right to water (arts. 11 and 12 of the Covenant). Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the scope and content of human rights obligations related to equitable access to safe drinking water and sanitation under international human rights instruments (A/HRC/6/3). Realization of the right to drinking water and sanitation (E/CN.4/Sub.2/2005/25). a General comments/recommendations of the treaty bodies are available in document HRI/GEN/1/Rev.9 (vols. I and II). A/HRC/10/61 page 31 ICESCR arts. 11 and 12; CEDAW art. 14, para. 2 (h); CRPD art. 28, para. 2 (a); CRC art. 24, para. 2 (c). CESCR, general comment No. 12 (1999) on the right to adequate food (art. 11).

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