Pages tagged with "Environmental Activists"
Global Witness welcomes the release from Police custody today of Goldman Prize winning forest protection activist Ouch Leng and three other environmental defenders and calls on the Cambodian authorities to drop all investigations into their activities
Since 2012, we have reported annually on killings of land and environmental defenders around the world.
Women land and environmental defenders are absolutely vital to the fight against the climate crisis. In every region of the world, women defenders take leadership roles in action against mining, logging, agribusiness and other destructive industries
Despite the international outcry that followed Berta’s murder, the Honduran government is consistently failing in its duty to protect its own citizens
Days after the funeral of prominent Mexican butterfly conservationist Homero Gómez González, the body of a second environmental defender is found at a butterfly sanctuary in Michoacán state, Central Mexico.
Guatemalan land defender Abelino Chub Caal spoke to Global Witness about his experience of being criminalised for taking a stand against damaging agribusiness
Could European politicians be sitting up and finally paying real attention to climate breakdown?
A year on from Julián Carrillo’s assassination, is the Mexican government is sowing the seeds for future conflict?
Our latest research demonstrated how murders of Land and Environmental Defenders in the Philippines have almost doubled – facilitated by the current government’s violent policies and aggressive rhetoric.
It's disappointing, that after clear evidence of growing attacks against land and environmental defenders in the Philippines, the government continues to shirk responsibility
Shocking evidence of widespread attacks against land and environmental defenders, with the Philippines government failing to act
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.
Global Witness wishes to express its support for these organisations and calls upon the government to guarantee the security of their members
Del Monte Philippines and their pineapple grower - suspected of ordering alleged attacks on indigenous activists.
Major exporter of pineapples to the US is carrying out business at all costs
Iranian environmentalist and former Government Deputy Minister Kaveh Madani speaks out about the criminalisation of environmental defenders in his native country.
On World Photography Day, we celebrate land and environmental defenders across the globe.
To mark World Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2019, we tell the story of one Guatemalan community’s struggle to protect their home.
As the world turns it head from Arctic fires, epic floods and the scalding drought of the summer, it rest its gaze momentarily on the IPCC report – increasingly a barometer for our success and failure on climate change.
Whether the UK government follows through on its pledge to hold British businesses to account for their role in driving human rights abuses will define what kind of country it wants to be in the future.
