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
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Blog Post | March 02, 2023
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Blog Post | February 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
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Statement | February 17, 2023 Global Witness welcomes long-awaited court verdict providing justice for the murders of Indigenous land defenders in the Peruvian Amazon
We welcome the news of the conviction of those responsible for the killings of Indigenous land and environmental leaders in Peru in this horrific case
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Blog Post | February 17, 2023 Fundo Casa: Highlighting the importance of Afro-Brazilian Quilombola representation at Climate COPs
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Long Read | February 02, 2023 Runaway Risk
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Press Release | February 02, 2023 Dutch construction companies will profit from Philippines mega-airport which is devastating local communities and environment
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Blog Post | January 24, 2023 Making good on promises: How Mexico can transform the lives of environmental defenders by implementing the Escazú Agreement
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Press Release | January 24, 2023 International NGOs Call for Release of Prominent Environmental Defender in Vietnam One Year After 5-Year Prison Sentence
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Blog Post | January 23, 2023 Out with the old and in with the new: What Brazil’s new president means for forests and environmental defenders
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Blog Post | December 21, 2022 Vietnam lands Just Energy Transition Partnership
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Blog Post | December 21, 2022 Amplifying the voices of land and environmental defenders at COP27
Briefings
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Briefing Document | November 03, 2022 Joint NGO briefing for UNFCCC COP27 on land and environmental defenders
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Briefing Document | May 12, 2022 Shareholders urged to vote against board of Bunge for lack of action on climate
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Briefing Document | April 26, 2021 Bunge needs to urgently address deforestation and human rights abuses
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Briefing Document | April 28, 2020 Responsible Sourcing
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Briefing Document | August 20, 2018 Voluntary guidelines for agribusiness, and their relevance to defenders
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Briefing Document | July 24, 2018 What Businesses & Governments can do for Defenders
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Briefing Document | June 19, 2012 A Hidden Crisis
Press Releases
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Press Release | February 02, 2023 Dutch construction companies will profit from Philippines mega-airport which is devastating local communities and environment
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Press Release | January 24, 2023 International NGOs Call for Release of Prominent Environmental Defender in Vietnam One Year After 5-Year Prison Sentence
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Press Release | December 19, 2022 Brazilian palm oil firm, BBF, ramps up violence against Indigenous peoples in final days of Bolsonaro rule
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Press Release | November 03, 2022 COP27: Human rights advocates urge parties to increase recognition and protection of environmental and land defenders
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Press Release | October 11, 2022 Global Witness welcomes Colombia ratifying key agreement for protection of land and environment defenders after 322 killed in Colombia in the last decade
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Press Release | September 29, 2022 A deadly decade for land and environmental activists - with a killing every two days
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Press Release | September 26, 2022 Brazil’s biggest palm oil producers Agropalma and Brasil Biofuels accused of serious human rights violations against communities in the Pará region
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Press Release | April 04, 2022 Mexican Caravan in Defense of Water and Life facing armed threats
Reports
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Report | November 23, 2021 Global commodity traders are fuelling land conflicts in Brazil’s Cerrado
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Report | September 13, 2021 Last line of defence
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Report | December 10, 2020 Indonesia palm oil traders are failing land and environmental defenders
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Report | July 29, 2020 Defending Tomorrow
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Report | September 24, 2019 Defending the Philippines
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Report | July 30, 2019 Enemies of the State?
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Report | July 24, 2018 At What Cost?
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Report | July 13, 2017 Defenders of the earth
Blogs
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Blog Post | March 02, 2023 Remembering Berta Cáceres: Seven years on, the fight for justice continues
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Blog Post | February 28, 2023 A historic sentence in Peru brings hope for land and environmental defenders
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Blog Post | February 17, 2023 Fundo Casa: Highlighting the importance of Afro-Brazilian Quilombola representation at Climate COPs
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Blog Post | January 24, 2023 Making good on promises: How Mexico can transform the lives of environmental defenders by implementing the Escazú Agreement
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Blog Post | January 23, 2023 Out with the old and in with the new: What Brazil’s new president means for forests and environmental defenders
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Blog Post | December 21, 2022 Vietnam lands Just Energy Transition Partnership
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Blog Post | December 21, 2022 Amplifying the voices of land and environmental defenders at COP27
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Blog Post | December 06, 2022 ‘Turn words into action’: A turning point for Latin American defenders?
