A 15 points declaration announced on the conclusion of first ever widely participated 2 day international conference on the impact of climate change on volunerable societies and how to protect their human rights.

Over 600 experts, national human rights commissions; representatives of civil societies; academia; United Nation's agencies participated in conference organised by National Human Rights Commission of Qatar (NHRC) in collaboration of Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Natiins (OHCHR) ; Arab Network for National Human Rights Commissions (ANNHRC) and League of Arab States.

Sultan bin Hassan Al Jamali, Secretary General, NHRC Qatar announced the outcome of the two day conference in shape of the 15 points joint declaration in presence on stage along with

Mohammad Ali Alnsour, Chief  Middle East and North Africa (OHCHR); and Michel Forst, UN Special Rapporteur on Environment Defenders.

It was stated that the widely participated quality conference witnessed successfully in establishing link between Climate Change and violation of Human Rights both phenomena.

The conference also discussed on the formation of fund to support the victims of floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, etc. However  no immediate action was decided.

Later, speaking to the media at a press conference after the event, Mohammad Ali Alnsour, Chief of Middle East and North Africa at the OHCHR, said the conference has put climate change as a priorit. The conference has made recommendations to the different actors, including the United Nations Human Rights Council and also the League of Arab States as partners, and the national human rights institutions (NHRIs), as the main partner in this conference'.

He said that in terms of the implementation, one of the concrete outcomes of the conference was that first ever time, we managed to put climate change as the priority district in this region. Earlier, it wasn’t much regarded as a concern regarding human rights and climate change.

He saud in his view, it was very important that we are moving in this direction.

He stressed that climate change has badly affected agriculture, the right to life, water and sanitation as such not limited to Middle East and African region but is a global complex and technical issue including resources and funds, implementation plan, however, it was an excellent start.

Sultan bin Hassan Al Jamali said that the organisers would be preparing a five years plan for keeping track of Foha recommendations.

AlJamali said that we are not focused only on holding annual conference, but also periodic meetings to meet the objectives of the roadmap and action plan we have come up with.

We organised this event to encourage and follow up with the states and to work with OHCHR United Nations to encourage them to respect their commitments regarding climate change and to exert efforts to help humankind adapt to climate change.

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