PDD proudly supported the Philippines and UNISDR in organizing the Regional Workshop on Disaster Risk Reduction, Preparedness and Disaster Displacement from 19 to 22 June 2018 in Bohol, Philippines, bringing together more…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
Suva – IOM, the UN Agency for Migration, in collaboration with the Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD), has organized a regional capacity building workshop for Pacific Islands on “Human Mobility…
Suva, Fiji, 14 February 2018 – Hosted by the Government of Fiji and organized by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD), the capacity…
Article originally published on Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law’s website on 6 February 2018 Environmental disasters and climate change are now the leading causes of displacement worldwide. Yet those…
