35 we were doing, my older brother’s message was “how are my three (3) siblings?” Then our neighbor tried calling my older brother, but his phone could not be reached, little did we know that the house where he and my parents were staying at had already collapsed. The following morning, together with my two (2) siblings we immediate [sic] left the place we stayed at to go to where my parents and older brother, while on our way there we never thought that they have died. While heading to the said place, we saw a lot of dead people on the road, a lot of houses and properties were wrecked but [we] didn’t find our missing family members. Then I decided to temporarily leave my two (2) siblings in the church to continue looking for my parents and older brother. After looking for the entire day, I still was not able to find any of them. We continued to look for them, we went to funeral homes, any place where people said that there were survivors, but no one from my six (6) missing family members could be found.152 These are just three of the thousands of similar stories spanning decades of extreme weather events. Filipinos carry the brunt of anthropogenic climate change by paying with their lives. ii. Right to Health The right to health is recognized by several international and regional human rights instruments including, the UDHR, International Convention on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR),153 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW),154 and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC),155 among others. WHO defines “health” as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence 152 T.S.N. of the Sixth Inquiry Hearing dated 11-12 December 2018, at 49-50. 153 United Nations General Assembly, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Dec. 16, 1966, 993 U.N.T.S. 3, available at https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6b36c0.html (last accessed May 3, 2022) [hereinafter ICESCR]. 154 United Nations General Assembly, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, Dec. 18, 1979, 1249 U.N.T.S. 13, available at https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6b3970. html (last accessed May 3, 2022) [hereinafter CEDAW]. 155 United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Convention on the Rights of the Child, Mar. 7, 1990, E/CN.4/RES/1990/74, available at https://www.refworld.org/docid/3b00f03d30.html (last accessed May 3, 2022) [hereinafter as CRC].