Scarred for Life

An enormous landfill in Colombia, currently owned and operated by French giant Veolia, has caused severe harms to local ecosystems and residents of the neighbouring village of Patio Bonito
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Dutch companies will profit from a new Philippines airport project being built at a high cost to communities and the environment
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Philippines

Duterte’s broken promises are leaving activists at the mercy of business at all costs in the Philippines, the country with the most killings of land and environmental defenders in 2018
Joseph Sandinao Defender from Philippines

Brazil

The climate-critical Amazon rainforest is under major threat from destructive agribusiness. Brazil is also one of the deadliest countries in the world for land and environmental defenders, many of them from indigenous communities
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