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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.

News and Press Release in English on Panama about Climate Change and Environment, Protection and Human Rights and Flood; published on 29 May 2024 by HRW

The planned relocation, which the community requested as a necessary step to avoid rising seas, is the first in Panama and among the most community-led examples globally.

The Panamanian government has not yet provided essential services for the Guna Indigenous people of Gardi Sugdub, who plan to relocate because of rising sea levels on their overcrowded island.

Next month, the Guna people living on the tiny Panamanian island of Gardi Sugdub will hopefully be given keys to their long-awaited new homes on the mainland, as the compounding challenges of rising seas due to climate change, and overcrowding make moving essential.

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The 52-page report, “‘The Sea is Eating the Land Below Our Homes’: Indigenous Community Facing Lack of Space and Rising Seas Plans Relocation,” documents both why the Gardi Sugdub community decided to relocate and how government delays and incomplete support for relocation have stalled the move and left the community in limbo. Human Rights Watch found that while some aspects of Panamanian government and Inter-American Development Bank support for the community have been exemplary, urgent...

The Panamanian government has national and international obligations to protect people from reasonably foreseeable risks to rights, including due to sea level rise and other climate change impacts. But planned relocation carries its own risks, including threats to people’s rights, and requires policies grounded in dignity and other human rights principles: a planned relocation must at minimum restore, or ideally improve, the standard of living of relocating people and their host communities. I...

One of the major announcements from the United Nations climate summit in Scotland last month, known as COP26, was the Glasgow Declaration on Forests and Land Use, along with the related funding it will set in motion. The declaration pledged $19.2 billion to end deforestation by 2030, and cited Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) […]