Sentences with phrase «environmental defenders»

Despite recent press coverage about the violence against international environmental defenders, another prominent figure has been murdered in cold blood.

So part of what we need to be thinking about is: what policies are most likely to empower environmental defenders in the Global South?

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) mourns the death of Berta Cáceres, a courageous and strategic Lenca leader and environmental defender who co-founded the Civic Council of Popular Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH).

NSW Environmental Defenders Office chief executive Sue Higginson said her lawyers had been fighting to obtain government data via freedom of information laws.

Another Deadly Year for Environmental Defenders, But Momentum Increases for Protecting Environmental Human Rights

Like women, indigenous environmental defenders often face more risks due to their marginalization, proximity to remaining contested lands, and historical lack of political legitimacy and access to monetary resources.

It's «designed not only to protect environmental defenders, but also to make it easier for people to get information, participate in decision - making that will affect their lives, and hold powerful interests to account,» said Excell, in a statement published by World Resources Institute

As environmental defenders, Goldman Prize winners have also been impacted by this alarming trend.

(1) Honduras is the deadliest country per capita to be a land and environmental defender with 123 killed since 2010.

78 US legislators demand that Rex Tillerson do more to protect land and environmental defenders in Honduras

The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) mourns the death of Berta Cáceres, a courageous and strategic Lenca leader and environmental defender who co-founded the Civic Council of Popular Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH)...

Separately, records of two of the Harris properties» water licences released under the Government Information (Public Access) Act to the Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) indicate significant volumes of water have been pumped on Harris farms beyond any legal entitlement.

The goal of the Environmental Defenders Fund is to create a unique collaborative opportunity that allows a range of environmental and biodiversity funders to engage on the complex issue of «defenders under threat» in an efficient and under - the - radar manner.

In total, some 185 environmental defenders were murdered in 2015, according to their latest report.

Out of the 74 journalists killed in 2017, only three, Luis Manuel Medina, Leónidas Martínez, and María Efigenia Vásquez Astudillo, also appear on Global Witness» list of murdered environmental defenders.

As of early March, nine environmental defenders have been killed this year, including Purépecha activist Guadalupe Campanur Tapia, who was one of the leaders of an indigenous movement against illegal logging in Cheran, Mexico.

The Environmental Defender Law Center (EDLC) recently introduced a new grants program that will fund legal expenses in cases against corporations harming the environment and human rights.

Their murders took place in some of the most dangerous countries to be an environmental defender — Brazil, Honduras, Colombia, Philippines, Guatemala, Thailand and Indonesia.

Nearly 40 percent of the environmental defenders murdered in 2016 were indigenous, Global Witness reported.

Honduras is the deadliest country in the world to be a land or environmental defender, according to Global Witness research.

2015 was the worst year on record for killings of land and environmental defenders — people struggling to protect their land, forests and rivers

Additionally we found a local non - profit environmental group - Environmental Defenders of McHenry County, (that we are all a part of anyway!)

The report, fittingly dedicated to Berta Cáceres (2015, Honduras) covers the state of land and environmental defenders in 2015 and is not short of harrowing evidence to support this statement:

Since then there has been an almost 60 percent increase in the death toll among land and environmental defenders.

Global Witness is calling on the Honduran state to crack down on an online smear campaign against groups working to protect land and environmental defenders in Honduras

Honduran government must counter smear campaign against land and environmental defenders and protect those under threat