"The African Union declared 2025 to be the Year of Justice for Africans and People of African Descent through Reparations. The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights has an opportunity to make that more than just a slogan, as it considers the current request for an advisory opinion before it, on states' human rights obligations in the context of climate change."
"On July 30, 2025, Amnesty International published a report recounting how, during the French colonial era in Madagascar, authorities deliberately unleashed harmful, genetically manipulated cochineal parasites across some 40,000 hectares (98,850 acres) of a drought-resilient vegetation in the Androy region in Madagascar's deep South. Between 1924 and 1929, the parasites destroyed roughly 100km (62 miles) of vegetation cover each year. This was not a minor ecological loss. The vegetation had sustained the Antandroy people for generations, providing food and helping to preserve groundwater."
The African Union designated 2025 as the Year of Justice for Africans and People of African Descent through Reparations. The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights can issue an advisory opinion linking colonialism to contemporary climate harms and clarifying states' human rights obligations in the face of climate change. A landmark opinion could go beyond the International Court of Justice and strengthen Africa's claims for reparative justice. Historical acts, such as the deliberate ecological destruction in Madagascar during French colonial rule, have produced long-term vulnerability that is now exacerbated by human-driven climate change from historically high-emitting countries.
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