Climate Justice and Human Rights in the Caribbean

 Date: Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Human Rights:

 

• The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) is currently conducting a questionnaire on the human rights situation regarding people with disabilities in the Caribbean. They invite members of civil society organizations, academia and other interested people to take part. The survey will inform the preparation of a report regarding the regulations and public policies that protect people with disabilities. The survey is done in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French. The deadline is August 15, 2022. To participate, click here.

• The Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) has expressed concern about the National Toshoa Council NTC apparent control by the political administrations of Guyana. The Association noted that funds sought by the NTC were cut and reduced from national budgetary allocations. Kaieteur News reports. 

 

• A High Court Judge from Guyana has demanded that a 58-year-old man, who has spent nine years on remand for murder be immediately released as his, “constitutional rights to a free trial within a reasonable time” was breached. Raymond Jones of Micobie Village was accused of fatally shooting a man in 2012 with a bow and arrow. Justice Sandil Kissoon said, “Jones was deprived of an early opportunity to have his name cleared.” News Room Guyana reports.

 

• As Jamaica’s Finance Minister announced that the public sector will increase its maternity leave from 40 days to three calendar months, and introduce paternity leave for the first time, the University of the West Indies sociologist Dr Herbert Gayle asks the Government not to limit the parameters of paternity leave. He said limiting paternity leave to married men instead of all fathers will only benefit a fraction of the population as a third of couples with children are married. The Jamaica Gleaner reports. 

 

Drug Policy:

• A referendum to vote on decriminalizing marijuana in Belize will cost the government US$5 million. In November 2017, the government decriminalized small amounts of cannabis. Now the Government is attempting to decriminalize up to ten grams of marijuana. Evangelical churches held a petition against decriminalization, and got signatures from ten percent of the population which triggered the referendum. The churches believe decriminalization will contradict God’s laws and support the gangs in Belize. Prime Minister John Briceño wants to negotiate with the churches to avoid having to spend money on the referendum. Loop Caribbean News reports.

Finance + Debt:

 

• The International Chamber of Commerce is calling on the G20 to do three things to avoid a global health crisis among low and middle-income countries: 

• Reinstate the G20’s Debt Service Suspension Initiative for an initial one-year period to countries in need.

• Establish a time-bound roadmap to agree on enhancements to the Common Framework for Debt Treatment

• Agree to new issuance of IMF Special Drawing Rights. 

Read more from the ICC here

 

Climate Justice and Energy:

•  Are climate change issues inherently racist? European colonists used labor from enslaved African and indentured Indians in the Caribbean to generate wealth from the sugar plantations. The fortunes made were later invested into energy industries that pollute the planet and cause natural disasters that make Caribbean people vulnerable to climate change. Read more via The Conversation  

 

• Guyana’s Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo believes halting the development of the oil and gas industry now in order for the country to get a larger share of oil revenue sooner is a bad idea. He thinks this would cause inflation to rise in the country. Kaieteur News reports. 

• UWI lecturer in chemical engineering, Dr. Lorraine Sobers warns Guyana to keep a watchful eye on its carbon dioxide emissions as the country develops the oil and gas industry. Guyana has a forest conservation policy. As a result, a large percentage of the country is forest reserve and there is a low rate of deforestation. However, with the development of the energy industry, she warns that Guyana could become a large carbon emitter in the region, like Trinidad and Tobago. Kaieteur News reports.

• Climate Analytics Caribbean opened a formal office in Port of Spain. This Trinidad-based team has a mission to address the gap between regional advocacy on climate change at the global level to support climate change policy work in the Caribbean. The office will provide support to governments to translate the agreements in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) into domestic laws, policies, and governance arrangements. The office will also support regional organizations and civil society to further advance climate science knowledge and develop regional climate policy research and analysis via Climate Analytics Caribbean press release. 

• There is a growing movement in Latin America and the Caribbean of people actively suing their respective governments to protect their country from environmental destruction. This article from Diálogo Chino discusses how people in Latin America and the Caribbean see climate change as a violation of fundamental human rights. Two citizens from Guyana, Quadad de Freitas and Dr Troy Thomas are trying to stop oil firms such as ExxonMobil from offshore drilling.

• Derval Barzey from Trinidad and Tobago, who worked in environmental risk management, noticed that there was a lack of Caribbean voices in climate advocacy. Thus, in 2020, she created The Climate Conscious podcast to talk about the economic, gendered, social, and health implications of climate change. It was listed by the University of London as one of the top sustainability podcasts in 2021. In April 2022, Brazey held the Caribbean Women for Climate Justice virtual conference, aiming to give a voice to women in climate activism. Funded by a grant from the Open Society Foundation, the conference discussed topics such as human rights, climate resilience and gender equality. A database of regional environmental stakeholders was made. It is accessible to the public through the Caribbean Natural Resources Institute. UWI Today reports.

 

• The Jamaica Climate Change Youth Council (JCCYC) has written a letter to Prime Minister Andrew Holness, dated July 15, 2022, imploring the Government to stop deep sea mining in Jamaica. The letter expressed concerns for the environment as deep sea mining is: “deeply controversial, with the potential to disrupt untouched and unexplored marine environments…The JCCYC is calling for the Government of Jamaica to reconsider its support for deep sea mining, and to join the calls for a moratorium.” Read more on Petchary’s blog.

Heritage preservation:

• UNESCO and the Government of Dominica officially launched the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund (ICH) on July 15, 2022. The fund is estimated to take 18 months to implement. It is a US$65,000 project aimed to strengthen the capacities of government officials, civil society, and those who hold knowledge of cultural heritage. Radio station Q75FM reports. 

Gender:

• Female farmer Ayodele Sampson reflects on her career path in farming. She became a farmer after she returned from Antigua where she worked in insurance. When she realized she was not able to get a job in Guyana, she became a farmer. As a woman, she struggled because she had to deal with men who did not respect her as a farmer or people who did not respect her because she was a farmer. Eventually, her success and determination earned her respect in her community. She is now secretary of her local farmer's group. Loop Caribbean News reports.

• The Caribbean has only had five female leaders since independence. Sir Ronald Sanders, Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the United States of America and the Organization of American States, observed that it was not the norm for women in the Caribbean to be considered for leadership positions. The five women who became leaders endured slurs and other insults while ascending to those positions of power, but their political grit earned them their leadership position. Read more in the Antigua News Room. 

Geopolitics:

• While Russia is not a major player in the Caribbean, the ramifications of the Russian and Ukraine war have ripple effects on the region. Cuba is Russia’s main economic partner in the region. CARICOM countries were among the 141 countries at the United Nations to condemn Russia for invading Ukraine. Cuba abstained. While CARICOM did not approve any joint sanctions against Russia, individual countries chose to take action such as suspending Citizen by Investment (CBI) programs for Russian and Belarusian citizens and the Central Bank of The Bahamas instructed all financial institutions to halt all business with sanctioned Russian entities. The ripple effects of the war also affected the region through food security and rising energy prices. The Caribbean largely imports food and oil and gas, which has caused the cost of living in the Caribbean to increase. Read more from The Global Americans.

Culture: 

• In the first ever episode of The Bocas Lit Fest’s podcast 100 Caribbean Books That Made Us, Trinidadian author Kevin Jared Hosein talks about his favorite book No Pain Like This Body by Harold Sonny Ladoo, first published in 1972. Set in 1905, the book depicts life in a rural rice farming community and the struggles communities experienced in the post-indentured era of Trinidad. Hosein describes No Pain Like this Body as a horror story that highlights characters and circumstances rather than being driven by plot. Hosein said the tumultuous behaviors of the characters can be observed in Trinidad today. The book highlights colonial blame, learned behavior and generational trauma. It makes the reader question how many families in Trinidad still experience that violence. No Pain Like This Body is being re-released by Penguin Vintage Classics on August 4, 2022, with an introduction by British-Trinidadian author, Monique Roffey.

• Papillote Press will launch the biography of Dominican poet and Pan Africanist, JR Ralph Casimir called Black Man Listen: The Life of JR Ralph Casimir by his granddaughter Kathy Casimir MacLean on July 31, 2022. The launch will take place at the Dominica High Commission. The book explores Casimir’s political activism and his role in Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). He was a teacher, bookbinder, lawyer’s clerk, and edited Dominica’s first poetry anthologies.  

Events:

• The Mellon Foundation hosts a panel discussion on the multiplicity of life and art in Puerto Rico on July 28, 2022 at 4:00 p.m. ET. The panelist includes Dr. Elizabeth Alexander, President of the Mellon Foundation; Alana Casanova-Burgess, Host and Producer of the WNYC and Futuro Media podcast; Dr. Yarimar Bonilla, Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College in New York City; and Daniel Lind-Ramos, sculptor and painter. Register here.

• The Caribbean Women in Leadership (CIWiL) is hosting the first biannual virtual Spotlight CSO Community of Practice Session on Psychosocial Support Services for GBV Victims/Survivors: Improving Quality and Access. It takes place via Zoom on July 21, 2022, from 10:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m. Jamaica time/EST or 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. AST. Register here.

 

• The Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI) and Freedom Imaginaries is hosting its second virtual dialogue - “Set the Agenda: Climate Change, Human Rights and Justice” – on July 21, 2022 at 2–4 p.m. AST/UTC-4. This is the next dialogue in CANARI’s series to develop a joint advocacy agenda for the Caribbean Climate Justice Alliance, and presents an opportunity for civil society and non-state actors across the Caribbean to share their perspectives and priorities. Register here.

Opportunities:

• Applications are now open for 2023 Conservation Leadership Programme’s (CLP) grant for early career conservationists. The CLP funds teams from low and middle-income countries in the Caribbean and Pacific to conduct scientific research, encourage and promote environmental issues in order to conserve and manage the natural world. Application deadline is October 10, 2022. Read more from CLP here.

• The Ireland Fellows Programme – SIDS is open for applications for the academic year 2023-2024. This fellowship allows for young professionals early in their career to get a fully funded Master’s Degree. Eligible countries are: Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St Vincent & the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. Applicants must have a  minimum GPA of 3.0 awarded within 12 months and not already hold a Master’s Degree. For more information click here. 

 

• UNESCO is conducting a Youth Greening Curriculum survey to understand young people’s current learning experiences and preferences for future climate change education in their schools and communities. If you are between 12-25 please fill out the survey. The deadline is August 8, 2022. The result will be presented at COP 27 in Egypt in November and will contribute to the development of the UNESCO Greening Curriculum Guidelines to be launched at COP 28. Survey in English, French and Spanish. 

 

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Cuba, a year after protests (July 14, 2022)

 Cuba, a year after protests

A year after Cuban protesters took to the streets in massive anti-government demonstrations, there have been few policy changes in response to the economic, social and political demands that fueled the unrest, reports Americas Quarterly.

Government crackdowns demoralized protest organizers, and “demands for political reform, delivered by young, middle-class professionals, did not speak to the most urgent issue for the majority of Cubans: their deteriorating standard of living,” writes William LeoGrande in The Nation.

The frustrated protest movement has fed into one of the largest exoduses from the island since the 1959 revolution. Some are activists fleeing persecution, while others are seeking economic opportunities, reports the Washington Post. The migration wave is sapping Cuba of many of its youths, as well as undermining efforts to oppose the island’s government.

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Haiti, a year after Moïse's murder

A year after Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was killed, Haiti has no political solution in sight. “The picture remains grim with a seeming state of lawlessness taking hold in parts of the country,” reports the New York Times.

The investigation into the killing is stalled in Haiti, part of a broader problem of a justice system plagued by protests, robberies, gang violence and death threats, reports Voice of America. Judges and legal clerks in the case have been threatened and told to change witness testimony.

In the meantime, Haiti is rudderless. Prime Minister Ariel Henry has promised to create a new provisional electoral council, which is responsible for organizing general elections, but that hasn't happened. There hasn't been a Parliament because the government failed to organize elections in 2019, and Moïse dismissed most lawmakers in early 2020 and ruled by decree for more than a year before he was killed. Attempts to form a coalition government have faltered in recent weeks, reports the Associated Press.

Public Security

• Gun battles between rival gangs have killed more than 50 people since Friday in Cite Soleil, near Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince. Shootouts between gangs in the impoverished suburb have also left more than 100 people wounded, according to Cite Soleil Mayor Joel Janeus. (Reuters)
  
  
• Thousands of people are trapped without drinking water, food or medical care in an isolated area of Cité Soleil, as armed groups battle for control of the area, warned Médecins Sans Frontières this week.
  
  
• Violent crime in Haiti has residents of Port-au-Prince living forms of security quarantines, in which running basic errands can be a fraught endeavor, reports the Miami Herald. Kidnappings and intentional homicides, according to the United Nations’ Haiti office, have risen by 36% and 17% respectively, compared with the last five months of 2021. In May alone, the Haitian National Police reported 200 kidnappings, an average of almost 7 cases per day.
  
  
• Haiti’s Customs Agency seized an extremely large quantity of illegally imported ammunition, last week, the same day that its director was replaced on suspicion of arms trafficking. The case highlights the country's struggle in combating weapons flows, according to InSight Crime.

Human Rights

• Haiti’s Cité Soleil is at risk of becoming a ‘sacrifice zone’ with its inhabitants facing extreme environmental injustices and an acute waste problem that threatens their health and safety, UN human rights experts said in a report last week. Cité Soleil is an impoverished commune in the outskirts of Port-au-Prince and home to nearly 400,000 people. An open canal serves as the commune’s sewage system and waste dumps grow into mountains over three metres high near residential areas where children play and go to school. (OHCHR)
  
  
• The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights concluded its first promotional visit to the Commonwealth of Dominica, conducted with the purpose of strengthening and deepening the Commission's collaboration with the government. (IACHR)
  
  
• Jamaican prosecutors' plans to seek the death penalty in the case of a young man accused of the throat-slashing murder of a mother and four children has provoked mixed reactions from lawyers, reports the Jamaica Gleaner.

Diplomacy

• China launched a development center with Caribbean countries -- part of an effort by Beijing to step up cooperation on poverty alleviation, food security, pandemic response and green development with the region.The China-Caribbean Development Center, which was unveiled in Jinan city in Shandong province, will serve as a catalyst for more high-standard and sustainable cooperation projects to enhance the well-being of people in the Caribbean, said Xie Feng, vice-minister of foreign affairs. (China Daily)
  
  
• The U.S.-Caribbean Partnership to Address the Climate Crisis 2030 (PACC 2030), the U.S.-Caribbean cooperation on climate adaptation, energy security, and clean energy investment framework could be the biggest breakthrough announced at the Summit of the Americas, according to Global Americans.  

Climate Justice and Energy

• The US has inflicted more than $1.9tn in damage to other countries from the effects of its greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new analysis that has provided the first measurement of nations’ liability in stoking the climate crisis. The report is relevant as activists push for loss and damage to be contemplated at this year's COP27 meeting. Developing countries and climate activists have pushed for ‘loss and damage’ payments to be made to those who are suffering the most from global heating through heatwaves, floods and drought.  (Guardian)

• Future global biodiversity may be intrinsically linked to the adaptive and resilience capacities of island ecosystems, but terrestrial biodiversity of islands is often under-represented within climate change impact assessments -- the terrestrial island biodiversity conundrum. (SDG Knowledge Hub)
  
  
• Sargassum is a brown macroalgae that has wreaked havoc on the Caribbean, decimating coastal ecosystems and threatening the tourism economy on which the region depends. New companies and initiatives are exploring ways to monetize sargassum harvesting via processing, while others are investigating how to sequester carbon by sinking the algae, reports Global Americans.
  
  
• Grenada has become the world’s first country to create a digital replica of itself, a 3D model government officials can use for sustainability plans. (Geospatial World)
  

Decolonization and Democratic Governance

• The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) denounced the British government's threat to re-impose direct rule from London on the British Virgin Islands, calling the position a sword of Damocles. Bahamas Foreign Affairs Minister, Fred Mitchell said that the CARICOM leaders had issued a ‘strong statement of support” for the BVI. (Loop News, see  June 17's briefs.)

Culture

• Trinidadian author Monique Roffey's  latest novel, “The Mermaid of Black Conch,” is inspired by the legend of Aycayia, or “Sweet Voice” — an Indigenous Caribbean woman cast off her island centuries ago and condemned to exile as a mermaid. In Roffey’s version, Aycayia is captured by American tourists in 1976. -- Los Angeles Times
  
  
• Puerto Rican writer Marta Aponte Alsina has created a new way of rewriting the Caribbean beyond the stereotypes and clichés. “My interest in the Caribbean stems from a feeling I’ve had for a long time, which is that of living in a kind of cage,” said the author at a roundtable discussion held during the Barcelona Latin American literature festival KM América. (Repeating Islands)
  

Opportunities

• The Loss and Damage Youth Coalition -- Story Telling Cohort -- From 19th July to 22nd August -- Apply Here

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Trinidad and Tobago protests against police violence (July 7, 2022)

Trinidad and Tobago's capital, Port of Spain, was paralyzed on Monday by demonstrators protesting police killing of three young men over the weekend. At least eight people were arrested in relation to the protests, which police claim were instigated by an "outside force." (Trinidad Express, Loop News, Caribbean Media Corporation)  

Demonstrators were warned to protest peacefully and stop the disruption or risk facing jail time, but residents have sworn to continue to show their outrage until justice is served, writes Janine Mendes-Franco in Global Voices.

Protesters say the deaths form part of a larger pattern of police violence against poor, Black youths.The deaths were also part of a broader problem Trinidad faces with gun violence: 13 people were killed this weekend within 36 hours, four believed to be police-involved shootings. (Guardian)

More Public Security

• An increase of police killings in Cuba, where use of firearms by security forces has been minimal since 1959, is a symptom of a poor preparation of law enforcement officers in situations of maximum tension and, in some cases, of a dangerous feeling of police impunity, argues La Joven Cuba.
  
  
• A new United Nations program carried out with the Jamaican government aims at reducing illicit weapons in the country, while also addressing root causes of violence. The SALIENT program presents a true reform in the government’s strategy, which has traditionally focused on reactionary policies that have failed to dislodge arms trafficking. But the slower, holistic, data-driven approach will take time, warns InSight Crime.

Suriname's conservation crossroads

Suriname is considered a global leader in biodiversity conservation, with more than 90 per cent of its land surface covered by native forests. United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres congratulated the country, which is considered carbon negative as its rainforests absorb more emissions than the country emits, during a recent visit. (United Nations News)

But Indigenous communities say their contribution to conservation, lauded by Guterres, is not matched by national regulations in Suriname, where Indigenous and tribal peoples' land rights are not codified by law, note activists.

Significant oil reserves could turn Suriname into an oil producing country within a few years, an economic boon that has provoked negative reactions among activists concerned about environmental impact. (RFI)

In fact, Guterres noted Suriname's oil and gas development plans, and said he does not favor that path. (Star Nieuws)

More Climate Justice and Energy

• Seven years after Guyana's government pledged to aggressively pursue renewable energy to power the national grid, the current government is pressing ahead with the use of natural gas in a bid to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. But using gas instead of heavy fuel oil to generate electricity makes absolutely no sense according to Guyanese international lawyer Melinda Janki. (Kaieteur News)
  
  
• Over half of the Caribbean's beaches could be lost by the end of the century due to climate-related sea level rise, which could, in turn, deal a significant financial blow to the region’s tourism industry, warns a new study by University of the West Indies scientists. (Jamaica Gleaner) 
  
  
• Global leaders, scientists, environmental advocates, and civil society groups voiced their opposition to deep sea mining during the UN Ocean Conference that ended earlier this month. (Global Voices)
  
  
• Steve Maximay writes about “Just Transition” climate change considerations within CARICOM as part of a new series by the Caribbean Investigative Journalism Network looks at climate change issues in the Caribbean.
  
  
• Two paradigm-shifting projects in Barbados demonstrate the country’s position as a small island state combatting climate change and the costs of the battle, writes Esther Jones in another piece of the CIJN series. She looks at new fishing regulations, which focus on measures to protect marine life, and the island-wide conversion to electrified vehicles by 2030.

Covid-19 Recovery

• The Caribbean Natural Resources Institute assessed 446 public sector Covid-19 recovery initiatives in six Caribbean countries and at the regional level and mapped to what extent these were designed to contribute to: Transforming economic governance; supporting fairness, inclusion and justice in economic development; supporting environmental sustainability while recognising and managing trade-offs, and ; enabling a low-carbon transition and building resilience to address multiple risks.

Economics and Finance

• The Caribbean Development Bank is piloting the Recovery Duration Adjuster (RDA), a new concept which would allow countries in the Caribbean to access financing following natural disasters and other shocks to their economies. The measure is aimed at changing the way vulnerability is measured for small island states, and would replace the current standard measurement, the Multidimensional Vulnerability Index (MVI) which primarily considers a country’s Gross National Income. (Loop News)

Migration

• Haiti’s educated youth are leaving the country as fast as they can, an accelerating brain drain of migrants that often go through Latin America en route to the U.S., reports the Miami Herald. A recent national survey by the country’s Citizen Observatory for Institutionalization of Democracy found that 82% of Haiti’s nearly 12 million people would migrate if they had the chance.
  
  
• Cuba’s Coast Guard was recently involved in two shootouts at sea with speedboats coming from the United States to pick up Cuban migrants, resulting in the death of one of the smugglers. The Cuban authorities said they have intercepted 13 speedboats and detained 23 people from the United States involved in migrant smuggling operations this year, reports the Miami Herald.
  
  
• Denise Pitcher, Executive Director, Caribbean Centre for Human Rights, spoke to WESN about refugees in Trinidad and Tobago, the government's failure to sign the Declaration on Migration and Protection at the Summit of the Americas and the need for a refugee policy and legislation in the country. 

LGBTQ Rights

• The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court has ruled a law in Antigua and Barbuda that criminalises gay sex is unconstitutional. The ruling also said the twin-island nation's 1995 Sexual Offenses Act "offends the right to liberty, protection of the law, freedom of expression, protection of personal privacy and protection from discrimination on the basis of sex." (ABC)
  

Gender

• Cuban journalists Milena Recio and Mónica Rivero’s online platform Matria features articles centering Cuban women and challenges the patriarchy, working towards a more equitable Cuba -- Startup Cuba.
  
  
• A tampon shortage believed to have been triggered by global supply chain issues compounded by rising fuel costs, problems sourcing raw materials, and labour shortages has been causing distress for many Jamaican women, reports the Jamaica Gleaner.

Events

• 8 July -- Barbados Youth Climate Action Summit and Expo -- Register
• 11 July -- The Global Forest Governance Forum 2022 -- Chatham House. Register

Opportunities

• Call for Manuscripts --- Brill’s Caribbean Series editor Sophie Maríñez (Repeating Islands)
  

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