Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Environmental defenders are being killed for protecting our future – the law needs to catch up

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par Damien Short, Co-Director Human Rights Consortium, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London

Three environmental defenders – people who take action against the exploitation of natural resources – are murdered or disappeared somewhere in the world every week. The latest report by Global Witness, an NGO that investigates environmental and human rights abuses, has recorded more than 2,250 such cases since 2012.

The vast majority of the 146 land and environmental defenders killed in 2024, according to the report, were murdered in Latin…

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