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Workshop on the prevention and assistance to migrants and people displaced across borders in the context of disasters
Context The Presidency Pro-Témpore of the Regional Conference on Migration (RCM) held by Panama during 2018 has proposed the theme “Sustainable Development Goals: Toward the Governance of Migration.” This is…
Experts Meet to Scale up Efforts to Tackle the Challenge of Climate Change Displacement
Bogis-Bossey, 15 May 2018 – Stakeholders from all over the world are gathered in Switzerland on 14 and 15 May to contribute to the work of the United Nations Framework…
Task Force on Displacement Stakeholder Meeting “Recommendations for integrated approaches to avert, minimize and address displacement related to the adverse impacts of climate change”
At the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s (UNFCCC) 21st session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 21) in Paris in 2015, the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss…
The Platform on Disaster Displacement’s recent engagement in Disaster Risk Reduction
In line with the Platform on Disaster Displacement’s (PDD) overall objective to strengthen the protection of people displaced across borders in the context of disasters, PDD continually engages with a…
Discussing “climate refugees” at the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights
In the field of disaster displacement, the phrase “climate refugee” is typically cloaked by quotation marks and followed by the caveat that no such definition is recognized by international law.…
EVENT: “Addressing the Needs of Persons Moving in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change in the Global Compact for Migration”
Background The forced movement of people in response to the adverse effects of climate change, disasters linked to natural hazards and other environmental factors is a reality, as recognized by…
