The Third Generation Project was born in response to the increasing need to emphasize the rights of communities and peoples in the face of climate change. 

The aim of our work is to:

• Create a space for multi- and inter-disciplinary discussion on the human rights issues surrounding climate change
• Produce research that outlines structural and systemic inequalities that expose communities and peoples to the effects of climate change over others
•  Generate recommendations to policy circles that reflects the concerns and priorities of frontline communities and peoples
• Reform Western research methodologies to become collaborative, transparent, and latitudinal in their nature, moving away from the legacies of oppression and extraction that currently surround them. 

In international law, the three generations of human rights each refer to political, socio-economic, and solidarity, or ‘collective’, rights respectively. The first and second generations of human rights (i.e. political and socio-economic) are enshrined in numerous international and regional treaties and statutes often in the form of rights allocated to the individual person. However, the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights spearhead the allocation of human rights to communities and peoples, and are the only two international statues that enshrine the need to protect communities and peoples and their right to self-determine and exist. Our name seeks to emphasize that human rights institutions and agendas must incorporate both the individual and the community in order to ensure 

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