A United Nations expert issued a report Wednesday vigorously defending climate activists whose protests have involved blocking traffic and attacking famous artwork worldwide.
The report – authored by U.N. Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders Michael Forst – stated that government leaders should listen to activists who engage in disruptive actions, rather than punish them for law violations. [emphasis, links added]
Forst’s report further characterized recent government actions cracking down on climate protests as “repression,” and a threat to democracy and human rights.
“The repression that environmental activists who use peaceful civil disobedience are currently facing in Europe is a major threat to democracy and human rights,” the report states.
“The environmental emergency that we are collectively facing, and that scientists have been documenting for decades, cannot be addressed if those raising the alarm and demanding action are criminalized for it.”
“The only legitimate response to peaceful environmental activism and civil disobedience at this point is that the authorities, the media, and the public realize how essential it is for us all to listen to what environmental defenders have to say,” it adds.
According to Forst, who was elected the first U.N. special rapporteur on environmental defenders in 2022, under the 1998 Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee, peaceful environmental protests are protected as a “legitimate exercise of the public’s right to participate in decision-making.”
In the report, he outlined how government authorities worldwide are increasingly restricting certain forms of climate protests in a “stark increase in repression.”
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Just Stop Oil lunatics took hammers and attacked Rokeby Venus, painted in 1651 ($90M) in the London National Gallery pic.twitter.com/97VumWIWeg
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 6, 2023
He noted that eco-activists are often compared to terrorists: counterterrorism laws are being used against environmental protesters, police use water cannons and pepper spray to disperse “peaceful” climate protests, protesters are arrested, and protesters who blocked traffic have received prison sentences of up to three years. …
The report highlights specific examples of alleged repression in France, Northern Ireland, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Netherlands and Finland.
“These trends give rise to the impression that the authorities’ intention is primarily to intimidate people from engaging in protest,” Forst adds.
He then called for nations to address the root causes of the protests by rapidly transitioning from fossil fuels to green energy alternatives.
The top U.N. official also calls for the media, lawmakers, courts, and law enforcement to tolerate environmental protests.
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So some Pea-Brain UN idiot supports those Criminals and their vandalism upon works of art and the Constitution Block roads and waste food and we have more reasons to Evict the UN from America Period and moved the whole rotten UN to Moscow or Bejing without America
Endorsing vandalism and other violations of the law Michael Forst and by association the entire United Nations on the same level as the criminal vandals. Allowing anarchy to exist is the real “threat to democracy and human rights.” Using illegal environmental protests as a tool for decision making by passes the Democratic process.