Fiji, Dec. 12 -- Fiji's former UN Ambassador and Climate Lead at Abt Global, Dr Satyendra Prasad, says the Pacific is living through "a breathtakingly extraordinary period" of human rights threats driven by climate change, telling a Human Rights Day lecture at Fiji University that the region must prepare for a far more dangerous future.

Speaking on "Protecting Human Rights in a Climate-Changed Pacific," Dr Prasad said his remarks focused on "the narrower field of human rights in the context of climate change in the Pacific," delivered at a time when the world is witnessing "extraordinary retreat from human rights protection."

He said, "every human right, every breach of human right and every advance in the protection of human rights sho...