Also in this week’s newsletter: ICC sanctions threaten justice; death penalty for a Facebook comment; and protests in India and France face harsh crackdowns.

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“They removed us [from Pulo Island], and they put us in a place where we feel we were thrown here like trash,” said a 48-year-old mother of two children. “They did not present any other solutions,” she said. “There were no options.”

Pampanga province in the Philippines’ northern island of Luzon experiences the country’s most severe flooding, which is exacerbated by storms, sea-level rise, and limited dam capacity, and is likely to worsen as climate change accelerates. 

From 2015 to 2025, floods and sea-level rise displaced 6.6 million people in the Philippines.

Communities in the Philippines living in flood-prone areas are already facing the consequences of climate change. They shouldn’t also have to suffer further from botched government relocations.

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