APNED 2026 Q2 Newsletter

As we reach halfway 2026, the Asia Pacific Network of Environmental Defenders (APNED) we dive head one despite arising challenges for environmental human rights defenders in the Asia-Pacific.

Read about the latest updates our network has followed, as well as promising developments in environmental rights from April to June 2026!

Following five years of imprisonment on highly contested “tax evasion” charges, pioneering environmental lawyer Dang Dinh Bach was released on June 24, 2026.

An April 8 tragic bomb blast in Manipur killed four people, including two minors, shattering a brief lull in a conflict fundamentally driven by deep-seated struggles over resource control and indigenous land protection.

Peaceful West Papuan demonstrators protesting the state-sanctioned takeover of 3.4 million hectares of Indigenous land in the country were violently dispersed by security forces on May 7, 2026, underscoring the escalating militarized crackdown on local communities fighting to protect their ancestral lands.

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