This year the UN Climate Conference — COP29 — will be hosted by the government of Azerbaijan.

As COP29 delegates prepare to attend talks in Baku, the international community must use the opportunity to shine a spotlight on Azerbaijan’s human rights record, particularly in light of the blockade and ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenian population last year, and amid the government’s escalating crackdown on freedom of speech, assembly and the press.

At COP29 and beyond, we reiterate our call that there can be no climate justice without human rights, and there can be no human rights without climate justice.