Sep 15, 2021 | Earth Minute, Earth Radio, Social Media News
Earth Minute: Attacks On Land & Environmental Defenders A new report from Global Witness found that 2020 was the deadliest year yet for land and environmental defenders. They point out that since they began analyzing data on these murders in 2012, evidence...
Jul 16, 2021 | Earth Radio, Earth Watch, Human Rights, Political Repression & Murder, Social Media News
Francisca Stuardo is a Santiago-based consultant for the international climate advocacy group Global Witness. She works on their land and environmental defenders campaign, which highlights threats against activists and pushes businesses, financiers and governments to...
Sep 7, 2017 | Climate Justice, Featured, Indigenous Peoples, Latin America, Social Media News, UN Climate COPs, Zapatistas / Chiapas / Mexico
Photo by Orin Langelle courtesy of PhotoLangelle.org Originally published by GlobalWitness.org As a student attending the COP21 conference in Paris in December 2015, I witnessed first-hand just how marginalized populations are disproportionately impacted...
Jul 17, 2017 | all other, Bioenergy, Climate Justice, Featured, Forests, Honduras, Indigenous Peoples, Latin America, Political Repression & Murder, Protests & Resistance, Social Media News
Killings of those protesting land grabs in one-third more countries than 2015 Nearly four people were murdered every week in 2016 whilst protecting their land, forests and rivers from mining, logging and agricultural companies, a new report from Global Witness...
Apr 5, 2017 | Climate Justice, False Solutions, Featured, Forests, Honduras, Indigenous Peoples, Latin America, Political Repression & Murder, Protests & Resistance, Social Media News, UN Climate COPs, Zapatistas / Chiapas / Mexico
Copinh Celebrates Its 24th Anniversary By Beverly Bell The Convergence of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) has defied all efforts over the past year, by the Honduran government and the DESA dam company, to destroy it. This past Monday,...
