Two Scots students are on hunger strike in protest against fossil fuel and arms investments.
Jasmin Roberts, 17, and Hannah Torrance Bright, 20, are starving themselves as they feel they have 'no other option'.
The Glasgow School of Art students' protest started on Saturday and say they are 'studying in a system that is financing the destruction of their future'.
It comes after a letter sent to the university on March 1 demanding divestment, amid the climate emergency on on which the students claim the board has yet to act.
The pair also allege that 'their fees continue to fund some of the companies most responsible for the climate and humanitarian crisis'.
Hannah and Jasmin plan on taking to spaces both in the university and around the city to inform locals about GSA’s investments, and why they are striking.
Hannah said: “The fact that we as students have to resort to starving ourselves in order to be heard by our university breaks my heart, but at this point we have no other option.
"The board has continually dismissed students’ cries for help over the crisis we are graduating into, and we cannot continue to be silenced knowing that our fees are contributing to the senseless destruction of life on earth.
"I am deeply afraid for the future, and our pleas have thus far been ignored by GSA.”
Meanwhile Jasmin added: “I am studying in a system that is financing the destruction of my future.
"GSA are continuing to invest funds into fossil fuels and arms and continue to dismiss the demands for divestment.
"I do not think GSA have considered the urgency of our demands, as we have been continuously ignored.
"I do not want to be in this position but believe it’s the only way to get change to actually happen within GSA."
Professor Penny Macbeth, director of The Glasgow School of Art and Kristen Bennie, Interim Chair of the Board of Governors provided a joint statement when approached by the Daily Record.
“It read: "The issues raised by Hannah and Jasmin are important to everyone at the GSA.
"Following an ethical investment policy and making significant progress towards becoming a more sustainable organisation is something we are taking very seriously.
“Over the past 12 months we have been reviewing our approach to ethical investment and will be tendering for new investment managers who will work with us to deliver our commitments on ethical and socially responsible investment.
"We have invited Hannah and Jasmin to meet with us to discuss what we are doing and what more we could do, and hope they will reconsider their proposed hunger strike which is of course of significant concern to us all.”
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