👀for a live coverage of this morning's hearings at the ECHR CEDH, see this thread: twitter.com/duycks/status/…
🔖for the decision itself, please see here (scroll down to para 558): hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-2332…

📢Global efforts to prevent human rights violations in business operations are more important than ever. That’s why multilateral development banks like the The EBRD have a crucial role to play.
🗞️Read Nina Lesikhina’s op-ed for Transitions magazine: tol.org/client/article…

Excellent news! The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted the Council of Europe's Recommendation on #SLAPPs today.

This is a very encouraging step for effective strengthening of the protection of #EnvironmentalDefenders who are increasingly targeted by the use of SLAPPs.

🚨Jamais l’alerte climatique n’a été aussi aiguë. Jamais les militants du climat n’ont été aussi réprimés.

📺Emission Mediapart en accès libre, avec le rapporteur spécial de l’ONU Michel Forst et la militante écologiste allemande Luisa Neubauer

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#A69 Très heureux d’apprendre que les écureuil.les vont pouvoir descendre des arbres qu’ils occupaient pour empêcher leur défrichement dont l’illégalité, qu’ils dénonçaient, est confirmée. Bravo pour cette lutte pacifique et déterminée face à des décisions illégales des autorités

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I will speak tonight (6pm UTC -5) in support of #ProtestAtSea & #OceansDefenders during Greenpeace International event at #ISA29

My message: urging Member States of the International Seabed Authority ISBA-HQ to respect their obligations & protect #EnvironmentalDefenders UNECEAarhus

Thanks dear UN Special Rapporteur for the Environmental Rights for HRDs ⁦Michel Forst⁩ ⁦FORUM-ASIA⁩ ⁦FIDH⁩ ⁦Civic Solidarity Platform⁩ ⁦GNDR⁩

📸 Almaty, March 2024 - Consultation with #EnvironmentalDefenders from Central Asia.

Very grateful & humbled for this privileged time w/ Central Asian #EnvironmentalDefenders . Thank you for your work & for the inspiring & powerful testimonies you shared with me in the last days.

📣Just released a paper on State repression of #Environmental #Protest and #CivilDisobedience . The repression faced by #Environmental Defenders is a threat to #HumanRights & #Democracy . Read the thread below for my calls to action and read the full paper 👇unece.org/sites/default/…

Les alertes sur les méthodes de maintien de l'ordre actuellement employées contre les militants pacifiques sur le chantier #A69 sont alarmantes. Il est indispensable d'apaiser la situation sur place pr que la démocratie environnementale s'exerce Préfet du Tarn france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/occitanie/tarn…

🚨 #EU #CSDDD Groundbreaking opportunity to protect #EnvironmentalDefenders at risk from #business . I urge Member States to vote the #CSDDD & not to miss this opportunity at a time when #Democracy & #HumanRights are increasingly threatened. Statement 👉 unece.org/sites/default/…