World Environment Day Spotlights Communities Fighting Climate Crisis

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image A person from the Guna Indigenous community along the shore of Gardi Sugdub Island, off Panama's Caribbean coast. © 2024 Matias Delacroix/AP Photo World Environment Day 2025 arrives amid a barrage of sobering news. Key developments around the world, however, offer a reminder that the global fight for environmental human rights is waged in frontline communities as well as in legislative halls. And where local communities are leading, there’s reason for hope.In February the government in Sarawak, Malaysia’s largest state, announced it would stop issuing…

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