Defenders of land, water and a healthy environment represent hope amid a climate crisis that affects us all. Latin America is the most dangerous region of the world to do this work. Defenders are literally under attack. They tell us that solidarity action from Canada is incredibly important to them...

Canada has a long history of harm and human rights abuses against Indigenous land and water defenders who are opposing colonial expropriation and protecting their lands and waters from extractive and resource development industry projects.  Indigenous women, Two Spirit and gender diverse...

Water defender Oquelí Domínguez was killed in the community of Guapinol (department of Colón, northern Honduras) on June 15, 2023. His assassination comes five months after the fatal shooting of his brother Aly Dominguez and Jairo Bonilla Ayala. All three murdered men were involved in a...

It was 3 AM when armed men arrived at the homes of Maria, Luz Angela, and Richar. The three water defenders had just returned from a meeting with other leaders of Rios Vivos, a grassroots movement that has denounced social and environmental damage caused by a hydro-electric dam on the Cauca River....

Kanahus Manuel is a land and water defender, tattoo artist and traditional birth keeper belonging to the Secwepemc and Ktunaxa Nations of the south-central interior of so-called British Columbia. Kanahus is also a member and founder of the Tiny House Warriors movement.  Kanahus Manuel spoke...

Oquelí Domínguez, brother of defenders Aly and Reynaldo Domínguez was killed in the community of Guapinol (department of Colón, northern Honduras) on June 15, 2023. Five months earlier, defenders Aly Dominguez and Jairo Bonilla Ayala, members of the resistance of Guapinol against an iron ore...

Download a copy of the 2nd UA 03/23 below Attacks on Honduran water defenders in the community of Guapinol persist a month after the murder of activists, Aly Magdaleno Domínguez Ramos, 38 and Jairo Bonilla Ayala, 28. Recently, six defenders of the Guapinol river found out that they could face...

Download a copy of the 1st UA 3/23 below Aly Magdaleno Domínguez Ramos and Jairo Bonilla Ayala, members of the popular resistance of Guapinol (department of Colón, northern Honduras) against an iron ore mine, were found dead in the community of Guapinol on January 7, 2023. They were intercepted...

After 914 days behind bars, accused of crimes they did not commit, eight community leaders known as the Guapinol River defenders have been set free. “We are so happy. Actually, we are euphoric! We have won at last!” said Orbin Hernández, a teacher and leader of the Municipal Committee for the...

DOWNLOAD PDF OF UA 133/20, UPDATE 4 BELOW In August 2021, the Supreme Court of Honduras accepted the Attorney General Office’s request to extend for six months the pre-trial detention of the defenders of the Guapinol river, despite the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention declaring their...

Environmental defenders with the Women’s Movement for the Defense of Access to Water, Land and Environmental Protection in Chile are under attack as they courageously confront a water crisis, and its impact on women and their families. Mujeres Modatima, as they are known in Spanish, are...

Mark your calendars for action in March on behalf of unjustly imprisoned indigenous river defender Bernardo Caal Xol and other water defenders under attack. WHEN  International Day of Action for Rivers on March 14 is a celebrated around the world as a day for solidarity action with communities...