Colombia: Preventing the expulsion of FEDEPESAN members

On February 15, 2024, the Colombian fishing and environmental association FEDEPESAN announced that its members would be forced to collectively move away from the areas they inhabit in the lakes and rivers around the city of Barrancabermeja. In recent years and also in the first two months of 2025, members of FEDEPESAN have been subjected to numerous harassments, threats, robberies, extortions and even assassination attempts by armed groups seeking control of the waters for their own benefit or retaliating against FEDEPESAN for denouncing possible cases of pollution and corruption. Amnesty International is calling on the Colombian police to ensure the safety of FEDEPESAN members and prevent their displacement. Weiterlesen

Colombia: Death threats against CREDHOS chairman

On 30 November 2024 and again on 2 January 2025, the civil society organization CREDHOS publicly denounced assassination plans by the armed group EGC against its president Iván Madero. Civil society organizations working for human rights, land rights and environmental protection in the northern Colombian region of Magdalena Medio, including CREDHOS and FEDEPESAN, have been Weiterlesen

Plenty to go around: Mobilizing finance for climate justice

On the eve of the World Economic Forum in Davos and following the disastrous outcome of negotiations on a new climate finance target at COP29 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Baku, Azerbaijan in November 2024, this document explains how fair taxation and responsible financing can play a key role in raising a significant amount of finance that is urgently needed to address the climate crisis, particularly for lower-income countries. Rapid progress must be made in 2025 at the Fourth Financing for Development Forum and in the development of the binding UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation. Weiterlesen

Mahnwache für die Landverteidiger*innen in Kanada in Hannover

Anlässlich der Hannover Messe 2025 plant die Koordinationsgruppe “Menschenrechte und indigene Völker” gemeinsam mit der lokalen Gruppe in Hannover (Gruppe 1017) eine Mahnwache vor dem Kongress-Zentrum, da Kanada Partnerland der Messe ist. Gemeinsam wollen wir auf die Situation der kriminalisierten Landverteidiger*innen der indigenen Wet’suwet’en Nation in British Columbia aufmerksam machen und unsere Solidarität mit ihnen Weiterlesen