CHR News Desk
Srinagar March 3
Ayisha Siddiqa of Pakistan has been named as the woman of the year by Time Magazine for her contribution to climate action.
The 24-year-old Siddiqa is a well-known human rights and climate campaigner who is spreading awareness about the climate through her poetry.
In November, she recited her poem “So much about your responsibility, my people are dying” at the annual UN climate conference in Egypt in a protest against global leaders for their failure to act on climate change.
Siddiqa is a passionate advocate for the rights of women, human rights, and nature. As a result of witnessing the illness and death caused by pollution in her community, she has dedicated her life to defending what she calls “earth mother”. She co-founded Polluters Out, a global youth activist coalition, and helped launch the Fossil Free University, an activism training course. Additionally, she is working to create a youth climate justice fund to provide more resources to grassroots activists.
She also works with the Climate Litigation Accelerator project at New York University’s Center for Human Rights and Global Justice to help create a system of support that breaks down silos between intergovernmental leaders and local activists, and to integrate the rights of humans and nature into climate law.
Siddiqa is committed to passing on her knowledge and experience to younger generations so that their work can continue and the chain of advocating for environmental protection never breaks.
