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July 10, 2024 Commentary

Mining for the Energy Transition Needs to Respect Human Rights

The extraction of key minerals used in renewables is accompanied by abuses. The UN must take action to address them.

 Artisanal miners carry sacks of ore at a mine near Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of Congo, October 12, 2022.
July 2, 2024 Commentary

Will the Cattle Industry Be Made to Respect Brazilian Law?

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July 2, 2024 Dispatches

US Should Expand Refugee Definition

People Fleeing Disasters Related to Climate Crisis Need Protection

Displaced residents chat on a school court used as a temporary shelter after the Parana river overflowed its banks due to heavy rain upstream, in Ayolas, Paraguay November 8, 2023.
July 2, 2024 Dispatches

Cambodia: Environmental Activists Sentenced to 6 to 8 Years

Quash All Charges Against Youth-led ‘Mother Nature’

Cambodian environmental activists from the group Mother Nature sit near barricades blocking a street to the municipal court in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, June 5, 2024.
June 30, 2024 Dispatches

ASEAN Environmental Rights Declaration Needs Transparency

Working Group Should Publish Draft, Engage Civil Society

Activists protest against deforestation by palm oil companies on Indigenous land in Papua, outside the Supreme Court in Jakarta, Indonesia, May 27, 2024.
June 25, 2024 Dispatches

Deaths During Annual Hajj in Saudi Arabia Underscore Extreme Heat Dangers

Implement Strong Heat Protections for Citizens, Pilgrims, Migrant Workers

Pilgrims use umbrellas to shade themselves from the sun as they arrive at the base of Mount Arafat, also known as Jabal al-Rahma or Mount of Mercy, during the annual hajj pilgrimage on June 15, 2024.
June 21, 2024 Dispatches

An Homage to a Beloved Indigenous Visionary

Blas Lopez Spent Decades Helping his Community in Panama Navigate Rising Seas

Blas Lopez, a Guna Indigenous community leader from Gardi Sugdub, Panama.
June 20, 2024 Dispatches

US Racial Inequity Compounds ‘Heat Dome’ Harms

Addressing Climate Change Means Combatting Structural Racism

Memorial Assistance Ministries distribute water and ice during extreme heat in Houston, Texas, US, May 18, 2024.
June 7, 2024 Statement

Uganda: Environmental Defender Detained

May 31, 2024 News Release

EU: Include Civil Society in Anti-Deforestation Task Force

Environmental Groups, Indigenous Communities Should be at Malaysia, Indonesia Meetings

Indigenous groups protest deforestation of their ancestral rainforests in Miri, Sarawak, October 2020. © 2020 The Borneo Project
May 31, 2024 News Release

Focus on Rights in Pre-COP29 Climate Talks

Ensure Fossil Fuel Phase-Out, Civil Society Participation

Protesters rally in support of climate activist Deanna "Violet" Coco, who was sentenced to jail for helping to block the Sydney Harbour Bridge, outside the Downing Centre court building in Sydney, Australia, December 13, 2022.
May 29, 2024 Dispatches

Panama Completes First Climate-Related Relocation

Government Needs Policy to Safeguard Rights for Affected Communities

A Guna Indigenous woman walks in Isber Yala, the site where her new, safer house was built in Guna Yala Comarca, Panama, August 30, 2023.
May 28, 2024 Dispatches

Germany Prosecutes Environmental Defenders

Indictment of Last Generation Sets Dangerous Precedent

Police officers remove an activist of the "Letzte Generation" as they protest for climate action in Berlin, Germany September 28, 2023.
May 27, 2024 Dispatches

The World Cannot Afford Delays to Anti-Deforestation Rules

EU Countries Need to Stay the Course on Plan to Clean Up Supply Chains

Sign that reads Europe buying, forests burning
May 20, 2024 Commentary

Ten Years Later, Flint Still Doesn't Have Clean Water

The top of a water tower is seen at the Flint Water Plant in Flint, Michigan January 13, 2016.

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