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FollowFollowHomeAbout usALLIEDYour rightsThe Escazú AgreementGeneva RoadmapSupportResource LibraryPhonebookInspiring StoriesNews and ArticlesCalendar & EventsYOU ARE NOT ALONE.Resource portal for environmental, land, and indigenous defenders.news & articlesSee all articlesRenforcer le soutien aux défenseurs environmentaux et climatiques: De nouveaux rapports présentent des recommendations pour les donateurs et les organisations de la société civile25.05.2022Read More Strengthening support for environmental and climate defenders: New reports present recommendations to donors and civil society organisations25.05.2022The Alliance for Land, Indigenous and Environmental Defenders (ALLIED) and the Universal Rights Group, with support from Freedom House and the Lifeline Fund for Embattled Civil Society Organisations, published two complementary reports presenting specific recommendations to donors and international civil society organisations on how to increase support for environmental defenders and climate activists.Read More Honduras is selling off its natural resources to the highest bidder, environmentalists claim: The Irish News29.03.2022HONDURAS’S economic growth strategy is founded on tourism, energy projects, mining and agri-business – all of which are potentially damaging to the environment. The government has awarded licenses to hundreds of controversial projects and critics say it is selling off the country’s rich natural resources to the highest bidder. Logging, mining and dam projects are […]Read More Climate activist Anabela Lemos receives Swedish government’s award for human rights and democracy: We Effect16.03.2022FEBRUARY 24, 2022 Climate activist Anabela Lemos is the recipient of the Per Anger Prize 2022. Photo: Edson ArturMozambican climate activist Anabela Lemos will be awarded this year’s Per Anger Prize for her fight for the farmers forced to leave their homes to make way for gas and coal extraction. The candidate was nominated by […]Read More Environmental human rights defenders must be heard and protected14.03.2022Environmental human rights defenders face danger and sometimes even death for their tireless work protecting the environment. In 2020, the non-profit organization Global Witness documented an average of four killings of environmental human rights defenders every week making it the deadliest year recorded by them so far for these brave protectors of the planet. There […]Read More UN News: Island States must bolster resilience to existential climate threats05.03.2022Making SIDS a priority In his opening remarks, Mr. Torero Cullensaid that this was why the agency has made “a concerted decision to prioritize activities for these countries and are working closely with SIDS networks and constituencies, to implement them”. He explained thatFAO is supporting SIDS “to build back better and achieve better production, better […]Read More Women building a sustainable future: The Mexican violinist who saved the Sierra Gorda03.03.2022Forty years ago, Martha Isabel Ruiz Corzo, known as Pati, left the Mexican city of Querétaro with her family in search of a simple rural life. Instead, she ended up leading and inspiring a group of some 17,000 local environmental activists, devoted to protecting the remote and beautiful Sierra Gorda. In the early 1980s, Pati […]Read More New environmental report offers solutions for ‘triple planetary crisis’-UN News03.03.2022Deadly wildfires, noise pollution and other looming environmental threats could cause widespread ecological damage, and need to be urgently addressed, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a new report published on Thursday. “The Frontiers Report identifies and offers solutions to three environmental issues that merit attention and action from governments and the public at large,” said UNEP Executive […]Read More Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, called for protection of environmentalists who defend the planet at the 49th Session of the Human Rights Council01.03.202249th Session of the Human Rights Council – High Level Event on Environmental Human Rights Defenders Opening statement by Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights 1 March 2022 Minister Ernkrans, Minister Solano Quirós,Excellencies,Colleagues and friends, Thank you for joining us today. Every day, environmental human rights defenders face abuse, threats and harassment for […]Read More New environmental report offers solutions for ‘triple planetary crisis’01.03.2022Deadly wildfires, noise pollution and other looming environmental threats could cause widespread ecological damage, and need to be urgently addressed, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a new report published on Thursday. Noise, Blazes and Mismatches:Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern, the sixth report, draws attention to emerging environmental concerns with the potential to wreak […]Read More Know yourrights“The exercise of human rights helps to protect the environment, and a healthy environment helps to ensure the full enjoyment of human rights“– Prof. John KnoxLearn moreFindsupportGet access to:Library of resourcesOrganisations offering supportInternational human rights mechanismsLearn moreFind out.Get involved.Empower.ReadinspiringstoriesAround the world, those who defend the environment and the human rights that depend on it face all types of obstacles, challenges and threats. Overcoming adversity, environmental, land and indigenous defenders have been working to change the lives of many.Read storiesEnvironmental, land and indigenous defendersare facinga crisis.The environment is a new battleground for human rights. As demand for products like timber, minerals and palm oil continues to rise, governments, companies and criminals are exploiting land with little regard for the people who live on it.Read moreALLIEDALLIED was formed to build a bridge between international, national and local work, and overcome gaps between siloed communities who may be failing to build on each other’s workRead more Explore your rightschildren´s rightsland rightsprohibition of torture, cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatmentright to adequate housingright to developmentright to educationright to effective remediesright to environmental informationright to equality and non-discriminationright to foodright to freedom from arbitrary detentionright to freedom of assembly and associationright to freedom of expression and opinionright to healthright to liberty and security of personright to liferight to participate in environmental decision-makingright to safe and clean drinking water and sanitationrights of EHRDrights of indigenous peopleswomen´s rights CLOSE