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Beyond Resilience: Climate Change and the Rights of Char Dwellers in Bangladesh

DHAKA, Bangladesh, August 31 (IPS) – Bangladesh’s riverine and coastal chars have always been landscapes of movement, but climate change is making that movement more violent, frequent, and unequal. The shifting islands of the Jamuna, Brahmaputra, Padma, and other rivers now reveal how climate stress multiplies deprivation, weakens citizenship, and forces char dwellers to absorb the costs of a crisis they did little to create.

Read the full story, “Beyond Resilience: Climate Change and the Rights of Char Dwellers in Bangladesh”, on globalissues.org

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