Human rights experts from Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, and the University Network for Human Rights published a white paper calling on the Biden administration to aid refugees escaping the effects of climate change in Central America on Thursday.
The white paper focuses on the Northern Triangle a region consisting of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras and the “large-scale migration” of civilians fleeing the impacts of a deteriorating environment.
Thomas B. Becker, an attorney at the University Network for Human Rights and a co-author of the report, said many legal experts decided to work together on the white paper because of the “interesting intersection” between immigration, asylum, and human rights law.