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Resources Keyword 'protection against penalisation'

The report "Global Witness Annual Defenders Report 2023/2024: Missing voices – The violent erasure of land and environmental defenders " by Global Witness highlights the alarming and ongoing violence…
As part of the Secretary-General's Call to Action for Human Rights, a practical Guidance Note on Environmental Human Rights Defenders (EHRDs) has been released urging the UN to provide increased…
Resource web portal developed by the Universal Rights Group, UNEP, Global Witness, N1M and the UN Special Rapporteur on  human rights and environment brings together information about the…
Environmental activists and journalists across Europe and Central Asia face severe challenges in their efforts to promote both the access and dissemination of environmental information and public…
On 6 May 2022, in a landmark win for advocacy efforts combating SLAPPs (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation), anti-pesticide activist Karl Bär the Munich Environmental Institute (…
Special Rapporteur on #EnvironmentalDefenders @ForstMichel presented his vision for mandate to protect them under the @UNECE #AarhusConvention, in face of significant risks of…
The article analyses the scope of article 3 (8) the ECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Aarhus Convention) prohibiting…
An app was created in Kazakhstan to warn reporters of potential harms. "The project is designed to strengthen free, independent and pluralistic media and contributes to Sustainable Development Goal (…
A resource created by NGOs to help document the persecution of environmental activists. The resource documents specific cases of persecution as well as brings attention to the increased persecution…
The updated version of the 2017 report prepared by the NGO Crude Accountability, FrackTracker Alliance and Ecoforum of NGOs of Kazakhstan covering cases of reprisals against environmental defenders…