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When considering the Project Zone and the Project Area together, the Southern Cardamom REDD+ Project overlaps with all or parts of six protected areas under the purview of the MOE: parts of the Botum Sakor National Park, the Central Cardamom National Park, the Peam Krasop Wildlife Sanctuary, the Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary, the Southern Cardamom National Park, and the Tatai Wildlife Sanctuary (see Map 2). The REDD+ project encompasses more than half a million hectares of land. Click to

Located in the middle of a plain, the sugar processing plant rusts under the light rain at the end of a monsoon. “The lorries used to come and go non-stop. But since 2019 everything has come to a (...)

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...

Urban projects are treated as political symbols, rather than vehicles to makes the lives of citizens better.

Pakistan authorities are forcibly evicting thousands of farmers near the city of Lahore for a massive infrastructure project.

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has published a report mentioning that how Pakistan authorities are forcibly evicting thousands of farmers near the city of Lahore for a massive infrastructure project, and asked the authorities to enforce environmental protections and reform colonial-era laws that grant the government broad powers to acquire land for private as well as public use.

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FCTA on Monday, in its response to Amnesty International and original inhabitants of Abuja's call to halt demolition in the FCT

NAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 30 - Deputy President William Ruto has vowed to “end all unauthorized evictions and property demolitions” if he clinches the - Kenya breaking news | Kenya news today | Capitalfm.co.ke