Greta Thunberg amplifies UNHR’s urgent plea during COP29
As the international community gathered in Baku, Azerbaijan, for the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP29, the University Network for Human Rights collaborated with environmental justice advocates Greta Thunberg and Arshak Makichyan to amplify pleas for accountability for Azerbaijan’s abuses.
Read our appeal below.
PLEA TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY AS #COP29 COMES TO A CLOSE:
DO NOT ABANDON NAGORNO-KARABAKH’S ARMENIANS
Demand accountability for Azerbaijan's atrocities against ethnic Armenians through the ICJ and the ICC.
Call for a UN-mandated fact-finding mission to investigate unlawful killings, torture, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, forced displacement, destruction of cultural heritage, and official incitement to hatred.
Establish a UN mechanism in Nagorno-Karabakh to guarantee conditions for the safe and dignified return of ethnic Armenians to Nagorno-Karabakh.
Create a robust international accountability process, such as a Truth and Reconciliation Commission or an international criminal tribunal for atrocity crimes related to the ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh.
End arbitrary detention, prohibit all secret detention in Azerbaijan, and reveal the fate of all victims of enforced disappearance.
To Google: Stop being complicit in the erasure of Armenian cultural heritage in Artsakh by removing and replacing data about Armenian landmarks with Azerbaijani propaganda.
Condemn pervasive, state-sponsored anti-Armenian hatred in Azerbaijan, and call upon Azerbaijani leadership to dismantle systemic hatred.
Share the evidence of Azerbaijan’s human rights abuses against Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenians: https://bit.ly/NKtoolkit
