Update on PPED treaty progress

This presentation provides an update on proposals to strengthen the Draft Treaty on the Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters (PPED Treaty) by explicitly incorporating disaster displacement, evacuations, and planned relocations into its provisions. It outlines recommended amendments to key articles of the draft treaty, arguing that displacement is a defining consequence of disasters and should be recognised throughout the treaty's definition of disasters, preamble, human rights provisions, disaster risk reduction measures, and international cooperation framework. The presentation also highlights support from several states and organisations for these proposed amendments. 

The presentation finds growing international support for explicitly integrating disaster displacement into the PPED Treaty. Several countries, including Portugal, Italy, the Philippines, Costa Rica, and the Pacific Small Island Developing States (PSIDS), endorsed proposals to recognise displacement in the treaty's preamble, strengthen protections for displaced persons under human rights provisions, include evacuations and planned relocations as disaster risk reduction measures, and expand international cooperation to cover evacuation assistance and humanitarian or protection visas. The presentation also notes proposals to require states to cooperate on disaster-related displacement and mobility while reaffirming that affected states retain primary responsibility for protecting people in accordance with international law. Overall, the update concludes that embedding displacement and mobility into the treaty would make it more comprehensive, rights-based, and responsive to the realities of climate- and disaster-related displacement.