🌎September is a busy month for the Countering Environmental Corruption Practitioners Forum! Our next meeting will look at the connections between #environment, #corruption and #humanrights and ask the question: How does corruption impact environmental human rights defenders?

Join the 24h Conference on Global Organized Crime #OC24! on 18-19 October 2023! Ngum Awah Faith, Caroline Chebet, Louise Taylor and myself will discuss resilience support for #environmental defenders. Register here oc24.heysummit.com/talks/15D/ Global Initiative

Extremely relevant piece of work from Global Initiative Billy Kyte

Handbook on tools for resilience for #environmental #defenders I co-wrote based on 70+ interviews with civil society and media in 3 key regions. Please read and share! Global Initiative

1/2 From shipments of cocaine, gold and timber moving down its hundreds of rivers to the makeshift airstrips that facilitate the constant movement of contraband planes, #TheAmazon is home to an underground economy that feeds increasing global demand, violence and deforestation.

2/2 Read the new report “Amazon Underworld. Criminal economies in the world’s largest rainforest”👉 buff.ly/47pvfLf An Amazon Underworld, Amazon Watch, Armando.Info, La Liga Contra el Silencio and GI-TOC collaboration.

#México: Nos sumamos a la condena de Tsikini, brotes de dignidad y justicia por la desaparición forzada y asesinato del defensor Higinio Trinidad de la Cruz en Ayotitlán Urgimos a las autoridades a llevar a cabo una investigación inmediata y garantizar la seguridad de las personas defensoras de la comunidad

Condenamos la desaparición forzada y asesinato del defensor ambiental Higinio Trinidad de la Cruz, en Ayotitlán, Jalisco. Exigimos una investigación exhaustiva y medidas de protección a las personas defensoras de la comunidad Gobierno de México Gobierno de Jalisco FGR México Fiscalía del Estado de Jalisco

1/3 Condenamos el asesinato del #defensor de derechos humanos Higinio Trinidad de la Cruz, el 24 de noviembre de 2023, en Cuautitlán de García Barragán, #Jalisco. El defensor indígena había sufrido distintos incidentes previamente y era beneficiario de medidas de protección.

Mañana les esperamos

He recibido informes alarmantes sobre actos de intimidación y ataques contra la defensora Hedme Castro, directora de ACI-Participa. En 2019, UN Special Procedures escribieron al gobierno sobre amenazas en su contra. Me preocupa mucho que tales ataques continúen Misión Permanente de Honduras ante la ONU Ginebra

Today the Eur. Court of Human Rights ECHR CEDH held that the European Convention requires States to seek net neutrality within three decades with adequate interim measures to that end, and that Switzerland was failing to do so, violating the rights of senior women. Huge win!

Lost red iphone between clissold leisure centre and Nevill road. If anyone finds it please DM. Thank you Stokey Updates

🇬🇧 Today marks a very dark day for fundamental human rights in the UK. Daniel Shaw and his co-defendants have been sentenced to spend 4 & 5 years in a prison cell for planning a peaceful protest. This decision is beyond comprehension. Full statement here: unece.org/sites/default/…

🎥Just released a film on my mandate as UN Special Rapporteur on #EnvironmentalDefenders under UNECEAarhus 👀Watch it to find out who can benefit from this protection and how. ✊Share the video to spread the word to those who need it most. 👉youtu.be/qpdRitmFJsI

🍃Human rights defenders standing up to corporate abuse often pay the ultimate price. "The Case for Change" presents powerful cases from Colombia, Honduras, Indonesia & Mexico on why we need a UK law on mandatory due diligence 🌍 👇 peacebrigades.org.uk/news/thecasefo… #bizhumanrights

Human rights activists face reprisals for opposing UK-linked extractive industries. Please read! ⁦Ben Leather⁩ ⁦PBI UK⁩ theguardian.com/environment/20…

NEW: In January 2023, Mexican activist Antonio Diaz & his lawyer Ricardo Lagunes disappeared after a community assembly against a mine, their truck found abandoned & shot up. The case shows how local cartels benefit from the presence of mining companies like steelmaker Ternium.

A rare insight from rural western Oromia and into the Oromo Liberation Army's insurgency from Ermias Tasfaye for Ethiopia Insight ethiopia-insight.com/2025/07/24/und…