Imminent Forced Evictions of Indigenous Ngobe Families due to Barro Blanco Dam in Panama (February 2014)

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The Movimiento 10 de Abril para Defensa del Rio Tabasará (M10), the Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA), the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), and Earthjustice respectfully submit this urgent appeal to United Nations Special Procedures on behalf of members of the indigenous Ngöbe community who imminently face forced eviction from their land due to the Barro Blanco hydroelectric dam project in western Panama. A project registered under the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), the dam is projected to displace approximately 270 indigenous people who neither were consulted nor gave their consent to leave their land, and who depend on their land for physical, socio-economic, and cultural survival.

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