Tag: South Asia

As we step into 2025, we celebrate our collective efforts as a network together with fellow environmental defenders and express our gratitude. We are in solidarity with the different struggles across the region for environmental rights, continuing our creative, hopeful, and courageous defense of lands, waters, and life.

As we move past the mid-year mark, 2024 has proven to be a tough year for environmental human rights defenders across the Asia-Pacific. Despite these challenges, our collection action and commitment remain strong. In this edition, you’ll find the latest news, campaign achievements, engagements, and resources.

Civil society organizations from the Himalaya request your support to save the Himalayas. Prompted by the increasing frequency, scale, and intensity of climate disasters such as landslides and glacier lake outburst floods (GLOFs) in the Himalayan region and the recognition that such disasters compound with historical systemic problems of exploitation and governance failure to especially bring harm to the most vulnerable yet least responsible populations, the People of Himalaya campaign was formed.

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.

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.

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.