Tag: environmental defenders

Here’s why and how to advocate for a genuine regional instrument on environmental rights that protects all of us. #ASEANEnvironmentalRights

This video is the second out of three in our #ASEANEnvironmentalRights explainer series.

Today, on International Human Rights Day 2024, we environmental human rights defenders and concerned civil society have come together to firmly call: STAND WITH ENVIRONMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS! FIGHT JUDICIAL HARASSMENT AND MILITARIZATION!

APNED condemns the unjust arrest and detention of six Cambodian environmental defenders from November 23 to 25. The six environmental human rights defenders were investigating illegal logging in the pristine Veun Sai-Sem Pang National Park, in Stung Treng, northeastern Cambodia, when they were arrested by military.

Sign on to stand with Mother Nature Cambodia and demand the immediate and unconditional release of the ten young environmental human rights defenders.

On April 22, we celebrate Earth Day, which started with a million people protesting and demanding environmental protection in the 1970s. After more than five decades, environmentally destructive projects such as mining and large dams still abound and people around the world are still struggling to uphold environmental rights and advocating for environmental protection, rehabilitation, […]

Watch this video to learn more about the situation of South Asian environmental human rights defenders.

APNED is pleased to announce a new publication entitled Bravery Amidst Adversity, a report on the critical situation of environmental human rights defenders in South Asia, particularly Bangladesh, India, and Nepal.

The Asia Pacific Network of Environmental Defenders (APNED) calls for the immediate release of 21 individuals arrested in the Gadchiroli district in the state of Maharashtra, central India on November 20. They were among the residents of the Todgatta Village and around 70 neighboring villages who have been protesting for over 250 days against six auctioned iron mines at Surjagarh Hills since March 11 this year.

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.