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 action is needed to ensure that community members’ rights are respected in the relocation.