Mining Watch
A petition calling on the Canadian Government to act in response to increasing extrajudicial killings of civilians and human rights defenders in the Philippines will be tabled by the Member ...
GuapinolResiste
Read complete bill, refering to arbitrary detention of Guapinol River Defenders and illegal mining in Carlos Escaleras National Park here.
Introduction comes as Honduran President ...
PBI
Brent Patterson
On the morning of February 22, Libertad para los defensores de Guapinol (Freedom for the defenders of Guapinol) tweeted: “Minutes from the start of the trial of Jeremías Martínez, ...
... alongside other imprisoned land and human rights defenders around the world.
His cause was also taken up by many on the left in Peru. In 2018, now-President of Congress Mirtha Vásquez of the socialist ...
... and terror has been the weapon of the State’s laws and armed forces to silence all resistance.
Around 40% of land defenders killed around the world belong to indigenous communities even though they make ...
Aaron Macaraeg Bulatlat
The Philippines ranked second in the 2019 Global Witness report for being the deadliest for environmental defenders with. In 2018, the country topped the list with 30 defenders ...
... protesters held in pre-trial detention since 2019 for alleged crimes linked to their opposition to an iron oxide mine which threatens to contaminate their water supply. Five more water defenders from Guapinol, ...
... activities had led to contamination of the rivers Guapinol and San Pedro. While other inmates were set free, the Guapinol defenders are still detained and the prosecution has not presented any solid evidence ...
... Jesuit-sponsored Radio Progreso. He is one of the men expected back in court this month. “But there’s injustice in this country. Laws are applied to [human rights] defenders, to the victims, to the people ...