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Digital Threats to Democracy

Online dangers to freedom of expression and climate communication: UNESCO World Press Freedom Day event

28 June 2024
Forests

Biodiversity and forest defenders: The stakes of COP16

22 May 2024
Land and Environmental Defenders

Concern grows for Tanzanian communities opposing TotalEnergies’ oil pipeline

18 April 2024
Land and Environmental Defenders

Justice restored after historical ruling upheld in retrial for murder of four Indigenous leaders

12 April 2024
Land and Environmental Defenders

Honduras: why urgent action is still needed in one of the deadliest places to defend the planet

04 March 2024
Land and Environmental Defenders

Attacks against West Africa’s defenders have been invisible for too long. That’s about to change

24 January 2024
Forests

UK urgently needs new law to stop financial sector bankrolling deforestation and rights abuses, say MPs

04 January 2024
Land and Environmental Defenders

Land and environmental defenders protect our planet – but they cannot halt climate change without access to justice

11 December 2023
Land and Environmental Defenders

Climate of fear

04 December 2023
Land and Environmental Defenders

Statement on the killing of renowned anti-mining activist and Indigenous environmental defender in Mexico

27 November 2023
Land and Environmental Defenders

Standing firm

13 September 2023
Land and Environmental Defenders

Almost 2,000 land and environmental defenders killed between 2012 and 2022 for protecting the planet

13 September 2023
Land and Environmental Defenders

Joint statement on suspension of reclamation projects in Manila Bay, Philippines

11 August 2023
Land and Environmental Defenders

Global Witness strongly condemns the criminalisation of four land and environmental activists as ‘terrorists’ in the Philippines

12 July 2023
Land and Environmental Defenders

Seven years after the murder of Gloria Capitan our struggle has grown into a climate movement

01 July 2023
Land and Environmental Defenders

Arrest of fifth climate defender undermines Vietnam's 'just transition'

22 June 2023
Land and Environmental Defenders

Scarred for life

30 May 2023
Land and Environmental Defenders

Five years on from India’s Thoothukudi massacre, families and activists demand justice

25 May 2023
Land and Environmental Defenders

Attacks against UDEFEGUA: Defenders in Guatemala are under siege to claim democracy back

24 May 2023
Land and Environmental Defenders

Hopes and fears for forests in a divided Brazil

04 May 2023
Land and Environmental Defenders

Defending the defenders: why Brazil must prioritize ratification of the Escazú Agreement

19 April 2023
Land and Environmental Defenders

Open Letter to the Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs on Escazú Agreement

31 March 2023
Land and Environmental Defenders

Delikado: the film exposing the criminality lurking behind Palawan in the Philippines

13 March 2023
Land and Environmental Defenders

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

02 March 2023
Land and Environmental Defenders

Dutch construction companies will profit from Philippines mega-airport which is devastating local communities and environment

02 February 2023
Transition Minerals

Missed opportunities: Assessing the use of sanctions in response to Myanmar coup

01 February 2023
Land and Environmental Defenders

Vietnam lands Just Energy Transition Partnership

21 December 2022
Land and Environmental Defenders

Amplifying the voices of land and environmental defenders at COP27

21 December 2022
Land and Environmental Defenders

Violence, torture and threats continue, allege land and environmental defenders in Amazonian Brazil palm oil region

20 December 2022
Forests

Brazilian palm oil firm, BBF, ramps up violence against Indigenous peoples in final days of Bolsonaro rule

19 December 2022
Forests

Mark Carney firm offloaded farms linked to deforestation and human rights abuses in hypocrisy-ridden 'slash and sell' strategy

16 December 2022
Land and Environmental Defenders

Toxic Takeaways

06 December 2022

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