Pipeline construction in Canada violates human rights!
The land of the Wet’suwet’en Nation is located in the Canadian province of British Columbia (B.C.). For years, the indigenous land defenders have been...
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...
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...
Azerbaijan: Release journalists arrested after COP29
On 6 December, in the aftermath of UN Climate Change conference COP29 held in Baku, Azerbaijani authorities detained seven journalists and media workers on...
Argentina: Joel Paredes – Blinded in one eye by police violence during peaceful demonstration
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....
Canada: Halt pipeline project with outdated permit
An environmental assessment certificate for the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) liquified natural gas pipeline project expires on 25 November 2024. In 2014, the...
Fighting to save their ancestral lands
Wetʼsuwetʼen land defenders are being criminally prosecuted just for defending their lands. Now they are fighting for its very survival, and the survival of...
Azerbaijan: Ongoing arbitrary detention ahead of COP29
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...
Release Journalists and Activists in Azerbaijan
For more than a decade, Azerbaijani authorities have been restricting space for civil society. NGOs have been arbitrarily shut down and civil society activists...
Colombia: Threats against an amazon defender
On 10 September Jani Silva, a defender of land, territory and the environment and the president of ADISPA, an organization managing a peasant reserve...