ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a number of practical measures that could be taken by states to ensure that the rights of all climate-displaced persons are respected, protected and fulfilled. Section IV of the Peninsula principles, entitled 'displacement', contains three principles relating to the responsibilities of states towards climate-displaced persons: the right to state assistance for climate-displaced persons; the right to housing and livelihoods; and the right to remedies and compensation. Human rights law guarantees the right to free and compulsory education for all at the primary level. The chapter addresses the important role of the international community in providing protection and assistance to climate-displaced persons, particularly where the State in question is unable or unwilling to meet its primary responsibility towards them. Principle 14ci emphasizes that states should provide climate-displaced persons with emergency humanitarian services. All climate-displaced persons should be protected against gender-based violence (GBV) and survivors of such violence should be provided with appropriate support.
