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March 13, 2023

Delikado: the film exposing the criminality lurking behind Palawan in the Philippines

This new documentary explores one of the oldest, largest, and most diverse rainforests in the world - and also one of the most dangerous places on earth to be a land defender
Maximilian Jung / Jan. 23, 2023

Berta Cáceres: New rules for banks could help stop defender killings

Last year, the EU proposed a law that could stop companies profiting from projects linked to the repression and murder of environmental defenders
Rachel Cox & Aurelie Skrobik / May 30, 2022

How Europe can stop funding land grabs in Brazil

The expansion of ranching and plantations is at the heart of land conflicts in the Amazon
Nov. 1, 2021

How can we hold companies responsible for the damage they cause?

Irresponsible companies are causing environmental destruction and human rights abuses around the world – but there is action we can take to stop them
Richard Gardiner / Oct. 13, 2021

New polling shows massive support for EU law to hold corporations to account

New polling from YouGov shows that more than 80 percent of citizens from across multiple EU countries want strong laws to hold companies liable for overseas human rights and environmental violations
Arianne Griffith / March 5, 2021

Global voices join together to call for corporate accountability

Hundreds of thousands of citizens from around the world joined growing calls for the EU to introduce a new, strong law to hold companies accountable
Alice Harrison / Jan. 25, 2021

“We are going to kill you.” A case study in corporate power left unchecked

The case of Colombia's Cerrejón coal mine typifies how global corporations consider themselves immune from laws designed to protect people and the environment
Alice Harrison / Jan. 7, 2021

We need new laws to stop companies profiting from murder

We’re calling for EU laws that protect land and environment defenders, ensure justice for the victims of corporate abuse, and don’t let any companies off the hook
Rachel Owens / Dec. 9, 2020

Bringing the voice of defenders to the EU

We brought together EU policy makers and an environmental defender from the Brazilian Amazon to discuss problems faced by communities and the need for the EU to bring forward legislation to protect defenders from corporate harm
Richard Gardiner / Sept. 1, 2020

A watershed moment on corporate accountability?

As the European Parliament begins developing proposals for a new law to hold business to account for its impact on people and planet, we set out how this process came about and what needs to happen now to ensure this really delivers results

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