ACTivate - The Sea is Rising in Tuvalu and Kiribati Jeopardising Fresh Water, Food, Housing and Health. The People are Facing a Difficult Choice: to Stay or Go. But Where Can They Go? The NZ Government Needs to Offer Refuge.

This month Campaigns Manager, David Vega dicusses Amnesty Aotearoa's new report titled: “Navigating injustice: Climate displacement from the Pacific Islands of Tuvalu and Kiribati to Aotearoa New Zealand".  David outlines how existing migration pathways don’t provide well for the humanitarian needs of people seeking safety from the impacts of climate change and disasters as they’re labour-focussed, making them arbitrary and discriminatory. Amnesty Aoteroa calls on the NZ Government to establish a special rights-based humanitarian visa to allow Pacific People most impacted by climate change to move to or continue living in NZ. This matters because, as a Pacific nation we are “all in this together” – he waka eke noa.