Rights bodies urge PM to take strong stand at UN climate summit

Some right- based organisations urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday to take strong stand at climate summit of the United Nations (UN) for the country's climate- induced migrants' rights and other justified issues.
The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon called a daylong climate conference in New York tomorrow (Tuesday), where Bangladesh premier is expected to join.
Climate workers made the call at a human chain programme styled 'we demand PM to urge developed countries to take responsibility of climate migrants' in the capital, a media release Sunday said.
The organisations are: BAPA (Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon), BIPNetCCBD (Bangladesh Indigenous Peoples Network for Climate Change and Biodiversity), CCDF (Climate Change Development Forum), CLEAN (Coastal Livelihood and Environ-mental Action Network), CSRL (Campaign for Sustainable Rural Livelihood) and EquityBD (Equity and Justice Working Group, Bangladesh).
Mustafa Kamal Akanda of EquityBD, Dr Abdul Matin of BAPA, Aminur Rasul Babul of Unnayan Dhara Trust, Mrinal Kanti Tripura of BIPNetCCBD, Sarwar Hossain of BKFS and Mowajjem Hossain of Green Voice, among others, addressed the function.
The group also placed a 5- point demand including a reduction of at least 40 per cent greenhouse gas emission, treating climate- induced migrants under a special UN protocol and spending of 50 per cent of green climate fund for adaptation.

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