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Kiribati refugee claims climate change crisis prevents him from returning home

A refugee has failed in a bid to receive protected status in New Zealand on the basis his island home is becoming uninhabitable, despite a United Nations ruling saying it’s unlawful to return people to countries where their lives might be threatened by the climate crisis.

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