Tag: judicial harassment

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!

The Asia Pacific Network of Environmental Defenders (APNED) stands in solidarity with the Talaingod 13, a group of activists, indigenous teachers, and advocates, and the Lumad people of Mindanao, who remain at the forefront of the fight for indigenous rights in the Philippines.

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 the joint statement from Indonesian civil society to demand the end to the criminalization and militarization suffered by the land and environmental defenders of Buol Regency in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Sign on to stand in solidarity with Filipina youth environmental defenders Jonila Castro and Jhed Tamano, whose struggle for justice after their September 2023 abduction continues.

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