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The world remembers the victims of enforced disappearances globally every last week of May. These injustices are one of the gravest human rights violations perpetrated towards individuals as it strips them of their dignity and security and causes irreparable and unforgivable damage to families and friends of the victims. We must not forget the names and lives of the numerous victims; their spirit lives on in our fight for a just and peaceful society.

Gerenai Community Rights Action Committee (GCRAC), Bruno Manser Fonds, The Borneo Project, KERUAN, and SAVE Rivers are leading the way for justice!

Climate action is needed amidst the devastating climate crisis that unfairly rampages poorer countries. The annual G7 summit gathers a group of industrialized and wealthy nations to discuss critical global issues. It is time to hold them accountable for their role as the biggest carbon emitters and extractive countries globally!

This is a an overview and recap of APNED’s activities from January to March 2023!

Water is one of the essential resources for all life on earth. However, it is finite, and it needs urgent protection and care. On World Water Day, we commemorate how water has allowed us to grow and develop. Along with it, we also recognize and appreciate the vital work that environmental human rights defenders do to protect it.

The Asia Pacific Network of Environment Defenders, the Center of Environmental Concerns – Philippines, and Ate Sherly Masurca from the Philippines, participated at the United Nations Water Conference 2023.

March is International Women’s Month, and today is International Women’s Day. Our network recognizes, celebrates, and supports women, girls, and women environmental human rights defenders worldwide for their work to attain social and environmental justice. We firmly believe that inclusiveness is central to a just transition!

There is only one world and environment. There is no planet b for humanity. Therefore, the time is now to defend mother earth. Along with it comes protecting and fulfilling our fundamental human rights, for without the world, we will cease to exist.

The environmental and climate movement rages on! We are relentless in our demands for justice, reparations, and accountability!

#ClimateJusticeIsSocialJustice

Since the military junta took over Myanmar in 2021, it has put the country in peril. Alongside the calls of the United Nations to the international community, APNED also strongly denounces the rule and disavows its legitimacy.

We call on our fellow environmental human rights defenders and allies to support the Tamang Indigenous People in their struggle to land and life!