"Four coastal Louisiana tribes that claim the U.S. government has violated their human rights by failing to take action on climate change submitted a formal complaint Wednesday to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.

Sea-level rise and coastal erosion are drowning tribal burial sites in South Louisiana, according to the complaint.

Continued land loss further threatens the tribes' source of food, said Shirell Parfait-Dardar, chief of the Grand Caillou and Dulac Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Indians."

Sara Sneath reports for the New Orleans Times-Picayune January 16, 2020. [2]