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Activists Hold Silent Human Rights Protest at COP27
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1:08Now PlayingA few dozen activists held a silent protest early Thursday at the U.N. climate conference venue to highlight human rights violations globally, particularly in Egypt, the host country.
Most of them wore white T-shirts and had their hands tied or a piece of cloth tied around their mouths to highlight the plight of jailed activists, especially in Egypt where many pro-democracy activists have been behind bars for years.
“We’re in solidarity with Egyptian prisoners of conscience right now,” said Dipiti Bhatnagar, an activist with the Friends of the Earth International, a network of environmental organizations.
At a later protest, a group of climate activists gathered at the U.N. climate summit’s main venue, against fuel fossil companies and other polluters.
The activists chanted slogans like, “kick polluters out, let people in” and sang and danced at the venue’s entrance.
Speakers at the protests blamed big polluters for destructive weather events, like flooding drought and rising see levels.
Cansin Leylim, an activist from the 350.org climate group, criticized soft drink giant Coca Cola’s sponsorship of the event, as a major contributor to plastic pollution.
“The fact that Coca Cola is sponsoring the climate talks is, frankly, a joke,” she said, adding that fossil fuel lobbyists at the summit have surpassed “the combined delegations of the small island states, the developing countries.”
Protests at COP27 are rare and small and all have taken place inside the venue’s Blue Zone, which is considered a U.N. territory.
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