UN Defends Climate Protesters Disruption And Vandalism
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.
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.”
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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Corona Hotspot
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“UN Defends Climate Protesters Disruption And Vandalism”
Of course, if it is for the greater good (of the banksters), then it is okay.
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VOWG
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Shut the U N down. It has become a cabal of communists, dictators and islamic zealots.
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S.C.
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It’s all good, as long as the UN understands that the rest of the world fully supports farmers spreading copious amounts of animal feces at UN and WHO assets all over the world.
It would be a grave threat to democracy to resist them. So, listen to them carefully, and do what they say, which will like involve something along the lines of you (UN, WHO, WEF) consuming enough of the provided natural fertilizer to be fatal.
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Wisenox
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The un-expressed goal of the UN is to ‘consume’ the west while also putting the shackles on.
The climate change scam is a nobility run trap, and so is the UN. Of course the UN will side with the climate lie, it ruins your country.
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SebastianX1/9
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Funny how millions upon millions of “immigrants” flooding into Europe and breaking into America are of no environmental concern whatever. The UN was founded by globalists; it is an inherently subversive, anti democratic front for oligarchy and world government.
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