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SDLAC 2021 Panel - Defending the Amazon: Stories and Challenges

Joseph Zárate is a writer and editor, Victor Zambrano es Director Ejecutivo del Patronato del Comite de Gestion de la Reserva Nacional Tambopata. Bruno Monteferri is an Ashoka Fellow, a Marañon Waterkeeper and Ocean Leaders Fellow 2021.
Deforestation in the Amazon has increased in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. A group of reporters, indigenous communities, non-profit organizations and activists work to defend the forest. How has their work been impacted by COVID-19?
The panel will be in Spanish, with simultaneous translation to English.

VIRTUAL: SDLAC 2021 Keynote - The Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Sector and its Response to Covid-19: Initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Sixth Annual Conference on Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean will be held on April 5th to April 9th, 2021 at the Yale School of the Environment. This year’s theme is “Recovering from the Pandemic Through Sustainability.”

SDLAC 2021 Panel - Nature-Based Solutions for the Water Sector in LAC

Natalia Acero is the Water and Cities Director for Conservation International - Colombia. Ana Gabriela Morales
is the Manager of Water Management and Urban Resilience for WRI Mexico Cities’ program. Florencia Zapata
is a Member of the Association of Latin American Studies (LASA) and the Permanent Seminar on Agrarian Research (SEPIA)
The panel will be in Spanish, with simultaneous translation to English.

The Kurds in the Middle East: Justice for Kurds

The Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, in partnership with the nonprofit organization Justice for Kurds, will host a four-part virtual discussion series on “The Kurds in the Middle East.”
The conference opening on Tuesday, April 13, at 12:00 p.m. will feature a keynote address from Kurdistan Region President H.E. Nechirvan Barzani. Panel discussions will then include an impressive array of American, European, and Middle Eastern practitioners, including senior Kurdish representatives from Iraq and Syria.

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