{"id":619254,"date":"2022-04-23T04:02:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T04:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/audio\/2022\/04\/1116542"},"modified":"2022-04-23T04:02:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T04:02:06","slug":"torres-strait-rights-activist-on-the-desperate-fight-to-save-the-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/04\/23\/torres-strait-rights-activist-on-the-desperate-fight-to-save-the-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Torres Strait rights activist on the desperate fight to save the islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yessie Mosby is best known as one of the \u201cTorres Strait Eight\u201d, the activists from the islands north of the Australian mainland, who complained to the UN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/EN\/HRBodies\/HRC\/Pages\/Home.aspx\" title=\"United Nations Human Rights Council\" class=\"word-link\" >Human Rights Council<\/a> that the government was not doing enough to protect them from the effects of the climate crisis.<\/p>\n<p>In this interview with the UN\u2019s Julia Dean, recorded earlier this month, Mr. Mosby described the devastating effects of the rising sea levels and extreme weather events in recent years, and his fears for the future.<\/p>\n<p>He started by describing the deep connection that he and his community have to the islands, which have been home to his people for some 70,000 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/audio\/2022\/04\/1116542\">UN News<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yessie Mosby is best known as one of the \u201cTorres Strait Eight\u201d, the activists from the islands north of the Australian mainland, who complained to the UN Human Rights Council that the government was not doing enough to protect them from the effects of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":401,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619254"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623080,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619254\/revisions\/623080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}