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In her most recent report to the UN General Assembly, Tipping Points: Human Rights Defenders, Climate Change and a Just Transition, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Mary Lawlor, delivers an urgent message: the world is failing those who are […]

Rebuild the Future: From Loss to Repair and Justice A Global South Call for Climate Recovery and Resilience   Our Shared Reality From Beirut to Belém, Sana’a to the Sahel, the Global South is experiencing a convergence of crises: conflict, economic collapse, ecological breakdown, and […]

A recent advocacy brief by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and partners (including CELS and Observatorio Ciudadano, both members of our community of practice)  outlines why reframing climate action through the lens of human rights and environmental justice  is urgent and how States, […]

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 […]