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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...

The Yuma County Board of Supervisors authorized the disbursement of an additional $234,300 in grant funding from the Arizona Department of Emergency and Military Affairs for the temporary relocation of

A legislative audit indicates that county election boards aren't receiving enough guidance from the state on voting oversight...the Kansas attorney general is going to court to block transgender people from making changes to their state-issued driver's licenses....and a Twitter post helps reunite a wandering emu with its owner. Details on those stories, and more, are here.

The Oakland Athletics ownership, state officials and Clark County commissioners have reportedly reached a tentative deal on new A's ballpark public funding plan.

The latest fundraising endeavor from the Bastrop County Monument Relocation Committee to generate the money needed to remove and relocate a pair of Confederate monuments on the grounds of the Bastrop County Courthouse will feature one of country music’s biggest acts. The 13-time Grammy-winning Texas band The Chicks will be one of several local and national music acts performing during a live-streamed, virtual concert to raise funds to support the committee’s efforts. The online concert, kno...

Relocating the Yuma County Fairgrounds remains the top priority for the county, although plans on how to pay for it have shifted. The Board of Supervisors recently updated the Yuma County Five-Year Economic Development Plan, which lists priorities and objectives for the calendar years 2020 through 2024. The supervisors initially adopted the plan in March with the understanding that the objectives would need to be changed based on evolving economic circumstances. The newly amended and adopted re...