Category: Resource

Entitled Funding Oppression, this new working paper dives into the harmful and irresponsible impacts that the direct and indirect investments of the International Financial Corporation have caused in South and Southeast Asia.

Download APNED’s Last Quarter of 2023 Highlights @ APNED Q4 Newsletter

Ang makatlong pamplanetang krisis nang pagbabagong klima, polusyon at pagkawala nang saribuhay ay kumakatawan sa nag-iisang pinakadakilang pagsubok na karapatang pantao sa panahong ito. Nitong Hulyo 2022, pinagtibay nang Pangkalahatang Asembliya nang UN ang makasaysayang resolusyong “Ang karapatang pantao para sa malinis, malusog at sustinableng kapaligiran” (A/Res./76/300). Ang resolusyong ito ay “pagkilala na dapat ang […]

जलवायु परिवर्तन का त्रिग्रही संकट  प्रदूषण और जैव विविधता की हानि हमारे युग की सबसे बड़ी मानवाधिकार चुनौती का प्रतिनिधित्व करता है। जुलाई 2022 में संयुक्त राष्ट्र महासभा द्वारा मानव अधिकार के लिए स्वच्छ, स्वस्थ और टिकाऊ पर्यावरण का एक ऐतिहासिक संकल्प अपनाया। इस संकल्प का मानना है कि सतत् विकास के तीन आयाम है […]

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

The EHRD Toolkit was launched last year during the annual commemoration of human rights day! The toolkit is the primary initiative of APNED, along with UNEP, YECAP, UNDP, OHCHR, and CEC-PH, in supporting the vital work of environment defenders across the globe. Additionally, it is an evolving document that seeks to improve upon new developments and consistent consultations and inputs from fellow defenders!

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

The United Nations Environment Programme launched its working paper on the Environmental Rule of Law, Human Rights, and Supporting Environment Human Rights Defenders last April 27, 2023.

The Working Paper summarises common legal and policy issues that must be urgently addressed across the Asia Pacific region concerning threats to the environmental rule of law and EHRDs. Key threats identified for the environmental rule of law and which undermine the positive role of environmental defenders in the achievement of sustainable development, include: the shrinking of civic space: impunity for wrongful acts: land grabbing; violence against environmental activists; criminalization of environmental defenders; and various forms of judicial harassment, such as strategic lawsuits against public participation.

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

This publication aims to shed light on the relationship between the drivers of environmental degradation, climate crisis, and human rights violations against environmental and climate defenders. It will analyze the situation of EHRDs in Southeast Asia and illustrate their pivotal role in protecting environmental and human rights. It examines trends in attacks on EHRDs within the last ten years (2012–2022), specifically those relating to climate change, through aggregate data of individual cases gathered from secondary sources. The countries included in this study are Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, Cambodia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand, some of the most climate-vulnerable countries and countries with the highest number of killings of EHRDs. It also highlights stories from these countries for in-depth discussion and analysis. Finally, it concludes that addressing the climate crisis in Southeast Asia entails urgent and comprehensive efforts to protect environmental defenders.