By Claudia Romero, CRE Latin American Facilitator, CHRD In a World Out of Balance This November, the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP) will take place in Belém do Pará, a geopolitical recognition of the Amazon—one of the Earth’s most vital regions...
When the wind blows from the sea, hundreds of people living near the commercial port of Poti don’t even dare to open their windows or go outside. They fear that the black, toxic dust coming from the cargos could enter their lungs and creep into their homes. Located on...
What do an Indigenous community living along the Atlantic coast in Panama and one in the high, lush mountains in Nepal have in common? They have distinct cultures, they are surrounded by a radically different landscape, they don’t speak the same language. Yet, they...
Throughout my professional career, I have advocated for the rights of conflict-affected communities, minorities, internally displaced persons (IDPs), and environmental migrants in my home country of Georgia. I believed that by doing so, I was contributing to the...
In recent years, work on development issues has been moving towards more participatory and collaborative approaches. The traditional top-down approach has rightly been criticised for disempowering communities and not including them in decision-making processes that...
By Vidya Dinker – originally published in The Diplomat on 19 May 2023 On April 3, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his “happiness” over the highest ever coal production in his country’s history. Indian coal reserves are so vast that they exceed...
