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Dec. 10, 2021

The struggle for access to clean water in Honduras remains fraught with danger

The experience of the Guapinol community shows that access to clean water is still a major battle in which national authorities, far from protecting the rights of their citizens to this most basic of human needs, are frequently the opponent
Ana Zarraga / Nov. 29, 2021

"The Earth is speaking: she tells us we have no more time"

A discussion with Txai Suruí, the only Indigenous woman to speak at the opening ceremony of COP26
Teng Kao / Oct. 25, 2021

Our land was stolen by a foreign company. We won’t give up the fight.

Cambodian defender Teng Kao tells of his community’s efforts to get their land back, and the high price they paid for a state-led ‘development’ scheme which prioritised corporate profits over their rights
Sept. 22, 2021

Introducing: The Defenders of the Earth

Listen to the stories of defenders in their own words in our new podcast series, presented by youth climate activist Vanessa Nakate
Norma Adams / Sept. 21, 2021

"I hope that someone follows in his footsteps"

In Mexico's deserts, water is hard to come by. For protecting his community's access to this most basic of human needs, Óscar Eyraud Adams was murdered last year
Malungelo Xhakaza / Sept. 16, 2021

"My Mother’s Struggle Lives On"

Malungelo Xhakaza tells of the damage which she says coal mining has brought to her community in South Africa - and her determination to continue resisting following her mother's murder
Mark Normington / July 23, 2021

One year after four men’s abduction, Honduras’s Garífuna still await justice

This was yet another incident in a disturbing pattern of state-led intimidation, criminalisation and violence directed at Honduras’s Afro-Indigenous Garífuna community
Luiza Paiva / July 20, 2021

The Brazilian law threatening Indigenous land rights

In Brazil, Indigenous Peoples are at the centre of a dispute threatening their land and human rights, as well as the fight to save our planet
June 4, 2021

How Land and Environmental Defenders Protect the Planet, and How We Can Protect Them

If we want to avert a climate disaster and deliver real climate justice, governments and businesses must protect land and environmental defenders and ensure their voices are heard
Alice Harrison / April 1, 2021

Big Oil is paying the police for protection. Here’s why that’s a problem

Protestors are calling on US President Biden to block a huge oil pipeline through their land, in the face of intimidation from police and politicians

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