Groups Appeal to UN to Halt Imminent Forced Evictions of Indigenous Ngöbe Families

San Francisco, CA–(ENEWSPF)–February 20, 2014.  Environmental and human rights organizations submitted an urgent appealto United Nations Special Rapporteurs on behalf of members of the indigenous Ngöbe community—the community faces imminent forced eviction from their land for the Barro Blanco hydroelectric dam project in western Panama. The eviction would force Ngöbe communities from their land, which provides their primary sources of food and water,…