NEW: Intensifying climate impacts have displaced members of Walande and other coastal communities in Solomon Islands, threatening the enjoyment of their economic, social, and cultural rights. Read more: www.hrw.org/news/2025/03... - ThreadSky

hrw.org • 43 days ago

NEW: Intensifying climate impacts have displaced members of Walande and other coastal communities in Solomon Islands, threatening the enjoyment of their economic, social, and cultural rights.

Read more: https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/03/17/solomon-islands-rising-seas-force-relocation

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hrw.org•43 days ago

Walande community members relocated from a small island to mainland Malaita due to rising seas and intensifying storms, but they face ongoing threats from climate impacts, insecure land tenure, limited access to land, and inadequate support.

hrw.org•43 days ago

Walande’s experience highlights the dangers of government and international donors failing to adequately support community-led planned relocation.

hrw.org•43 days ago

Residents gave Human Rights Watch multiple reasons for their relocation, including displacement due to past and future disasters, but also overcrowding and the precarious nature of life on an artificial island.

hrw.org•43 days ago

Chronic and repeated disaster displacement took an enormous psychological toll on Walande community members. Residents told Human Rights Watch about their anxiety during extreme events.

hrw.org•43 days ago

Support for communities on the front lines of the climate crisis is already urgent and will only become more imperative.

hrw.org•43 days ago

Meeting these mounting challenges will not be possible without putting human-rights-centered policies in effect.

Read the full report: https://www.hrw.org/report/2025/03/17/theres-just-no-more-land/community-led-planned-relocation-last-resort-adaptation

laixkhan.bsky.social•43 days ago

No one is listening to the plight of people displaced by disaster, wars, western invasions.
Public and Powers that be only whine when displaced human beings try to seek help by crossing into other countries.
Unless you are Ukrainian everyone welcomes and helps that’s the Anglo American Alliance.

laixkhan.bsky.social•43 days ago

Everyone talks about the impact of Climate change but actual material and legal support for secure status is missing. Shameful!

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