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  • Francisca Stuardo & Evie Calder / March 2, 2023

    Remembering Berta Cáceres: Seven years on, the fight for justice continues

    Seven years ago, the world lost Berta Cáceres - a Honduran environmental and Indigenous activist killed in her home in La Esperanza, just two days before her 45th birthday

    Berta Cáceres
  • Laura Furones / Feb. 28, 2023

    A historic sentence in Peru brings hope for land and environmental defenders

    Illegal loggers who murdered four Ashéninka Indigenous leaders in 2014 sentenced to 28 years in prison

    Peruvian anti-logging activist Edwin Chota
  • Maryellen Crisóstomo & Vanessa Purper / Feb. 17, 2023

    Fundo Casa: Highlighting the importance of Afro-Brazilian Quilombola representation at Climate COPs

    Today in Brazil there are 6,000 Quilombola communities, spread throughout all the biomes, and their rights must be acknowledged and upheld

    Quilombo Residents Threatened By Ranching And Logging In Brazil's Amazon
  • Eduardo Mosqueda / Jan. 24, 2023

    Making good on promises: How Mexico can transform the lives of environmental defenders by implementing the Escazú Agreement

    After two years since the regional instrument entered into force in the Americas, the country continues to face enormous challenges as communities defend Mexico's land and environmental heritage

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  • Marco Mantovani / Jan. 23, 2023

    Out with the old and in with the new: What Brazil’s new president means for forests and environmental defenders

    Newly elected president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has sent a clear message about his commitment to increase environmental protections, fight deforestation and protect those who defend the environment

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  • Shruti Suresh / Dec. 21, 2022

    Amplifying the voices of land and environmental defenders at COP27

    The climate crisis is a human rights crisis, yet there was strong pushback at COP27 to recognise a human rights approach to climate action

    Shruti at COP27 side event, 2022
  • Dec. 21, 2022

    Vietnam lands Just Energy Transition Partnership

    Vietnam lands just energy transition partnership

    Dang Dinh Bach
  • Laura Furones / Dec. 6, 2022

    ‘Turn words into action’: A turning point for Latin American defenders?

    As parties to the landmark Escazú Agreement convene, implementation is the issue of the day - particularly for Mexico, the world’s deadliest country for environmental defenders

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  • Marina Comandulli & Alexandria Reid / Nov. 18, 2022

    Dead end: ambitious deforestation targets and human rights not included in agribusiness climate roadmap

    Fourteen of the world’s largest agribusinesses have released a new climate plan which falls far short of eliminating their role in human rights abuses and deforestation

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  • Joci Aguiar / Nov. 10, 2022

    “Who needs climate justice in Brazil?"

    The outcome of Brazil’s election marked a new beginning for forest conservation and Indigenous rights. Brazil now has the opportunity to take a leading role in responding to the climate crisis and should bring land and environmental defenders to the forefront of its action plan

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