Social conditions in Honduras

• TARRYTOWN, N.Y., Dec. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- KeyBank announces twenty (20) charitable donations made by KeyBank Foundation, the bank's charitable foundation to nonprofit organizations throughout its Hudson Valley/Metro New York market.
• "KeyBank's commitment to the communities we serve is at the heart what we stand for," said KeyBank Market President John Manginelli.
• "We value the partnerships we have with local nonprofit organizations and are proud to support their important community work."
• Bowery Mission, New York, NY to support its Continuum of Care Services for New Yorkers experiencing homelessness, food insecurity and other crises.

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• Upon receiving the awards, Adept CEO Patrick Chraghchian stated, "We are immensely proud to receive these prestigious MAME Awards.
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• One year later, this dream was realized during the 5th Urban Economy Forum (UEF5) entitled "For Climate Change, Urban Finance," which launched the Global Solutions Nexus (GSN).
• The GSN is creating a solid global network to establish a connection between local actions and finance for impactful urban transformations.
• The goal is to gather people, ideas, resources, institutions, and systems to co-create these transformative solutions through creative and collaborative mechanisms for sustainable processes and outcomes.
• These solutions will be possible to be developed thanks to the gathering, exchange and dialogue creation of technicians, academicians, the private sector, and financial institutions with city leaders.

• There will be many meaningful conversations about ways we can each engage with and support reconciliation.
• However, one issue that doesn’t get enough attention is how transportation continues to be a serious challenge for Indigenous communities.
• This is concerning as it undermines our pursuit of true equity for all and runs the risk of misallocating public funds.

The roots of transportation injustice

• Though each jurisdiction in Canada has its own settler-colonial origin story, the roots of transportation within this are inseparable.
• This was a dark period of extreme poverty and housing insecurity, the impacts of which continue to marginalize and harm Métis people today.
• Under this system, police were authorized to arrest and imprison Indigenous people who were found off-reserve without a pass.

Lack of investment

• They impact the ability for Indigenous communities to respond to emergencies and climate disasters, complicate the unity of Indigenous families and more.
• Some of these impacts may be more acute in rural, remote or isolated communities, but local governments lack an understanding of how urban Indigenous communities experience transportation and mobility.

Anti-Indigenous racism

• Indigenous communities experience systemic racism in policing, with disproportionate amounts of ticketing and overrepresentation in arrests, with rates as high as 10 times that of white people in some areas.
• Read more:
  How colonial racism fuels Saskatchewan's criminalization of Indigenous men

  The impacts of colonization are gendered, as evidenced by the disturbing rate of violence against Indigenous women, girls, Two-Spirit, transgender and gender-diverse people.

• Land dispossession and a lack of adequate housing and transportation options also enable disproportionate rates of human trafficking of Indigenous women and girls.

Right to security

• Many of the factors underpinning these issues violate the principles of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), including the right to a life free from discrimination; to life, physical and mental integrity, liberty and security of person; and the right to improve economic and social conditions.
• It’s time for planning professionals, municipalities and transport agencies to recognize that transportation is a reconciliation imperative too.
• There are things we can do to embed reconciliation in our work more meaningfully: Be diligent about the truth.
• Such actions are uncovering the ways municipal institutions and structures have dispossessed and violated Indigenous Peoples, and illuminating the path forward.