29-year-old Joel Paredes lost his right eye to a rubber bullet fired by the police while taking part in a peaceful demonstration in Argentina. Do you support our call to bring those responsible for Joel’s blindness to justice? Weiterlesen
An environmental assessment certificate for the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) liquified natural gas pipeline project expires on 25 November 2024. In 2014, the government approved the certificate even though it found that the project would have significant adverse effects and increase greenhouse gas emissions. Since then, the pipeline route, which goes through several Indigenous Nation’s unceded, ancestral territories, has changed. The indefinite extension of the certificate puts everyone’s right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment and Indigenous Peoples’ ways of life at risk. We call for a new assessment to be conducted, in full consultation with the Indigenous Peoples along the pipeline route. Weiterlesen
Environmental lawyer Đăng Đình Bách dedicates his life to protecting people in Viet Nam from pollution and the climate crisis. On 24 June 2021, he was arrested for alleged tax evasion, a tactic used by the authorities to silence environmental activists. He was sentenced to five years in prison. Sign the petition and call on Viet Nam to free Bach immediately. Weiterlesen
Wetʼsuwetʼen land defenders are being criminally prosecuted just for defending their lands. Now they are fighting for its very survival, and the survival of our planet during a global climate crisis. Sign the petition and help them protect their land. Weiterlesen
Anar Mammadli’s state of health has deteriorated considerably in prison. The authorities are refusing to provide the human rights activist and climate campaigner with the necessary medical care. He has been in prison since 29 April 2024 on trumped-up charges and must be released immediately and unconditionally. Weiterlesen
For more than a decade, Azerbaijani authorities have been restricting space for civil society. NGOs have been arbitrarily shut down and civil society activists and journalists arrested or forced into exile. Since the announcement of Azerbaijan as the host state of COP29 last year, the clampdown on critical voices has intensified, resulting in arrests and Weiterlesen
On 10 September Jani Silva, a defender of land, territory and the environment and the president of ADISPA, an organization managing a peasant reserve zone in the Colombian Amazon (department of Putumayo), received a phone call threatening to “blow you up, car and all”. Jani and ADISPA have protection measures in place, provided by the government’s National Protection Unit (UNP). Weiterlesen
On Saturday, 14th September, environmental defender and coordinator of the Municipal Committee for the Defence of Common and Public Assets (CMDBCPT) Juan López was murdered as he was leaving his work as a community and religious leader in the parish of San Isidro Labrador in the municipality of Tocoa, department of Colón, northern Honduras. Weiterlesen
In the Ecuadorian Amazon, the government is not complying with a ruling won by nine young activists together with the organization Unión de Afectados por Texaco—UDAPT requiring ending gas flares, which consume the rights of local communities with flames and toxic gases and contribute enormously to climate change. Demand the president of Ecuador to eliminate Weiterlesen
Ilham Mahmudi and Taufik, two fishermen from the province of North Sumatra, are on trial for trying to save their coastal village from flooding. They face up to five and a half years in prison after being charged with alleged group violence and damage to property. Local non-governmental organizations and legal advocates see the charges as unjust criminalization in connection with their activities as environmental activists. Together with their community, Ilham Mahmudi and Taufik are working to protect the mangrove forest in the area from encroachment, which they fear could lead to flooding and submerge their village. The Indonesian authorities must ensure fair and impartial prosecution and grant them the right to a fair trial. Weiterlesen
