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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 action is needed to ensure that community members’ rights are respected in the relocation.
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. It
The sounds of sobbing children, some struggling to breathe, outraged the public in June 2018 as the impact of the Trump administration family separation policy became widely known.
Biden Prepares to End Remain in Mexico Program Activists say Remain in Mexico has exposed thousands of asylum seekers to violence in dangerous cities near the U.S.-Mexico border. President-elect Joe Biden is preparing to get rid of the “Remain in Mexico” program, which activists say has exposed thousands of asylum seekers to violence in dangerous cities near the U.S.-Mexico border. The program, created in January 2019 by President Trump, was used to discourage asylum seekers from crossing the border and has sent over 69,000 individuals to wait in Mexico for immigration court hearings. Human Rights Watch describe the policy “needlessly and foreseeably exposed [asylum seekers] to considerable risk of serious harm.” Michael Garcia Bochenek, Human Right Watch’s senior children’s rights counsel, said its researchers heard upsetting testimonies from asylum seekers about traveling back to Mexico. The Guardian
Trump’s policy exposed migrants to harm: report ‘SHOCKING’: Human Rights Watch described crimes, including rape and kidnapping, but Biden’s team has warned change might not be immediate The Guardian US president-elect Joe Biden has been urged to scrap a “devastating” migration program that activists say has exposed tens of thousands of asylum seekers — many of them children — to violence, abduction and rape in some of the world’s most dangerous cities. US President Donald Trump’s administration created the “Remain in Mexico” program in January 2019 in an effort to deter asylum seekers trying to enter the US through its southern border.