Geneva, September 15, 2023 (PPI-OT): Speakers at a seminar, while highlighting impacts of climate change on human lives, have said that a collective response and concerted action is direly required to save vulnerable populations in the disputed territories.

According to Kashmir Media Service, the seminar was attended by international experts, human rights activists, diplomats and academicians hailing from different parts of the world. The seminar/webinar was moderated by Sardar Amjad Yousaf Khan, Executive Director of Kashmir Institute of International Relations (KIIR). The speaker includes Dr Imtiyaz Khan, US, Dr Syed Waqas Ali Kausar, National University of Modern Languages (NUML), Leon Sue, American human rights activist, Dr Saira Farooq Shah, Mirpur University of Science and Technology (MUST), Syed Muhammad Ali, strategic expert and Ms Fatima Waheed of National Defence University (NDU).

Terming climate change as a global problem, the speakers said that climate change posed a serious threat to people living in conflict-hit regions where communities face myriad challenges and vulnerabilities compounded by political conflicts, violence and heavy militarization.

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