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Erica Bower
@EricaRBower
Researcher-advocate advancing tools to help communities plan to relocate - or stay - with dignity in a changing climate 🌎🌍🌏
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At COP29? Join this side event tomorrow where we tackle one of the most thorny aspects of the #ClimateCrisis. No community *wants* to abandon their home, but if it’s a last resort, how to plan a relocation in a dignified way? What role can human rights guardrails play?
📢 Happening at @COP29_AZ: How to align planned relocations with human rights-based approaches in the context of #climatechange and disasters? Find out at our event tomorrow: t.ly/Htvj-
📅15 Nov 2024
🕒13:00-14:00
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Today we honor Blas Lopez, a Guna Indigenous leader who walked the talk of community-led, rights-respecting #climateadaptation. Tragically, he passed days after his community was given keys to their new, safer homes: a dream he'd worked towards since 2010. hrw.org/news/2024/06/2…
www.hrw.org An Homage to a Beloved Indigenous Visionary Today we honor Blas Lopez, a Guna Indigenous community leader from the small, flood-prone island of Gardi Sugdub, Panama. Tragically, he passed away last week from a sudden and unexpected illness. Mark your calendars: Join the Special Rapporteur @PaulaGaviriaB, @DDisplacement and cosponsors for a conversation on rights-respecting planned relocation in the context of disasters and climate change on 21 June in Geneva & online. More here: bit.ly/4cfV4zw
Gardi Sugdub provides a glimpse into what an Indigenous community-led, government-supported planned relocation as climate adaptation can look like, but there are lessons to be learned. Panama should draft a policy to safeguard rights in future relocations. hrw.org/news/2024/05/2…
www.hrw.org Panama Completes First Climate-Related Relocation Today, the Guna Indigenous people living on the tiny, overcrowded, and flood-prone island of Gardi Sugdub in Panama will finally be given keys to their long-awaited new homes on the mainland.