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Canada: Halt pipeline project with outdated permit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...
Honduras: Water defender killed
On Saturday, 14th September, environmental defender and coordinator of the Municipal Committee for the Defence of Common and Public Assets (CMDBCPT) Juan López was...
Indonesia: Fishermen on trial after protesting encroachment
Ilham Mahmudi and Taufik, two fishermen from the province of North Sumatra, are on trial for trying to save their coastal village from flooding....