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February 11, 2025 Dispatches

Panama Needs to Expedite Efforts Toward Climate Relocation Policy

Center Indigenous Community Voices

Civil protection officials, left, load a family's belongings on a truck to move from the island of Gardi Sugdub, located off Panama's Caribbean coast, to Nuevo Carti on the mainland, June 5, 2024.
January 17, 2025 Dispatches

Panama Floods Show Need for Planned Relocation Policy

Safeguard Rights of Indigenous Communities Facing Climate Crisis

The Guna Indigenous community of Ukupa in Panama during a flood in December 2024.
September 11, 2024 Feature

Darién Gap: The Jungle Where Poor Migration Policies Meet

A woman embraces her son in a jungle
September 11, 2024 News Release

Americas: Limited Protection for People Fleeing Venezuela, Haiti

Limited Access to Asylum, Integration Pushes People to the Darién Gap

SENAFRONT officers coordinate the departure of “piraguas,” wooden canoes made from hollowed-out tree trunks
June 21, 2024 Dispatches

An Homage to a Beloved Indigenous Visionary

Blas Lopez Spent Decades Helping his Community in Panama Navigate Rising Seas

Blas Lopez, a Guna Indigenous community leader from Gardi Sugdub, Panama.
May 29, 2024 Dispatches

Panama Completes First Climate-Related Relocation

Government Needs Policy to Safeguard Rights for Affected Communities

A Guna Indigenous woman walks in Isber Yala, the site where her new, safer house was built in Guna Yala Comarca, Panama, August 30, 2023.
April 3, 2024 Statement

Panama: Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Internally Displaced Persons

April 3, 2024 News Release

Colombia, Panama Fail to Protect Migrants in Darién Gap

Poor Protection, Insufficient Aid, Flawed Investigations

Migrants sit under a sign marking the Panama-Colombia border
February 22, 2024 News Release

Panama: Key Services Lacking at Climate Relocation Site

Develop Policy for Moving Numerous Other Indigenous Communities Facing Rising Seas

Aerial view of houses for the new community where the residents of Gardi Sugdub will be transferred in Kuna Yala, Panama, October 12, 2023.
January 23, 2024 Dispatches

Panama Moves Closer Towards First Climate-Related Relocation

Government Still Needs to Address Water, Sanitation, Health

Aerial view of houses for the new community where the residents of Gardi Sugdub will be transferred in Kuna Yala, Panama, October 12, 2023.
November 9, 2023 News Release

Americas: Migrants Pushed to Cross Darién Gap, Abused

Lack of Safe and Legal Pathways Risks People’s Lives, Empowers Organized Crime

Migrantes y solicitantes de asilo se embarcan en barcos que los llevarán desde Necoclí a Capurganá, Colombia, donde muchos comenzarán un viaje de varios días a través del Tapón del Darién.
October 10, 2023 Commentary

How the Treacherous Darien Gap Became a Migration Crossroads of the Americas

Migrants waiting for a boat to take them from the Indigenous community of Canaán Mebrillo to Puerto Limón, Panama, after a days-long walk across de Darien Gap, May 2022.
October 6, 2023 Dispatches

NYC Mayor Should Prioritize Human Rights over Harmful Discourse

Adams Should Understand Why People Migrate to NYC

Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Gustavo Manrique, right, shakes hands with New York City Mayor Eric Adams
September 25, 2023 Dispatches

Rising Seas, Broken Promises in Panama

Plans to Relocate Indigenous Community from Flood-Prone Island Delayed

Dark clouds over homes on an island
July 31, 2023 News Release

Panama: Indigenous Community Needs Further Support to Relocate

Government Delays the Move Despite Sea Level Rise, Overcrowding

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