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In its groundbreaking July 2025 report, Global Witness uncovers a disturbing trend: the vast majority of land and environmental defenders (the frontline protectors of ecosystems and human rights) are subject to severe online abuse, which often spills over into real-world threats. This digital assault not […]

In the battle for environmental protection, we often focus on physical threats: murders, displacements, or criminalization. But there is another, largely invisible dimension of violence affecting environmental defenders: the psychological trauma caused by defending land, ecosystems, and ancestral rights in a context of escalating climate […]

In a historic move that strengthens the legal foundations of climate justice, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has issued an advisory opinion declaring that all States have a legal duty under international law to prevent climate change and protect the global climate system. Described […]

At the 18th Session of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP), Norway, a country often seen as a progressive leader on environmental rights, took the floor to correct what it described as a misrepresentation of its domestic legal practices. Specifically, the […]

On July 3, 2025, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) issued its Advisory Opinion 32/25, a historic and unprecedented milestone for environmental and human rights law. For the first time, a regional human rights court has explicitly recognized the autonomous right to a healthy […]

As climate change accelerates and its impacts intensify, the urgency of an energy transition becomes increasingly clear. But not all regions face this transition from the same starting point. In the Global South, communities are not only disproportionately affected by the climate crisis—they are also […]