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Postcards, Petitions, and Banners for Campaigning to Support Threatened Land and Water Defenders in Latin America

Defenders of land, water and a healthy environment represent hope amid a climate crisis that affects us all. Latin America...

Land and water defender, Kukpi7 Judy Wilson (Secwépemc Nation) at a prayer circle in Blue River, British Columbia. Photo credit: Billie Jean Photography

End violence against Indigenous women and 2SLGBTQIA+ land and water defenders in Canada

Canada has a long history of harm and human rights abuses against Indigenous land and water defenders who are opposing...

An iron ore processing plant being built next to the Guapinol river, Colon, Honduras. PHOTO CREDIT: SEAN HAWKEY

Honduras: Protect Water Defenders Under Attack

Water defender Oquelí Domínguez was killed in the community of Guapinol (department of Colón, northern Honduras) on June 15, 2023....

A collage of defenders and the environment they seek to protect

Land and water defenders face a new wave of deadly threats in Colombia

It was 3 AM when armed men arrived at the homes of Maria, Luz Angela, and Richar. The three water...

Kanahus Manuel: “Canada must end violence against Indigenous women and 2SLGBTQQIA+ land and water defenders”

Kanahus Manuel is a land and water defender, tattoo artist and traditional birth keeper belonging to the Secwepemc and Ktunaxa...

Oquelí Domínguez - Cortesía de Guapinol Resiste

Honduras: Water defenders killed

Oquelí Domínguez, brother of defenders Aly and Reynaldo Domínguez was killed in the community of Guapinol (department of Colón, northern...

Image of the Guapinol river with a painted rock with the inscription 'Rio Guapinol'

Honduran water defenders under attack

Download a copy of the 2nd UA 03/23 below Attacks on Honduran water defenders in the community of Guapinol persist...

HONDURAS: Two water defenders killed

Download a copy of the 1st UA 3/23 below Aly Magdaleno Domínguez Ramos and Jairo Bonilla Ayala, members of the...

Butterflies fly over smiling water defenders

An important victory for water defenders in Honduras

After 914 days behind bars, accused of crimes they did not commit, eight community leaders known as the Guapinol River...

Honduras: Water Defenders Pre-Trial Release Rejected

DOWNLOAD PDF OF UA 133/20, UPDATE 4 BELOW In August 2021, the Supreme Court of Honduras accepted the Attorney General...

Speak Up for Women Water Defenders at Risk in Chile

Environmental defenders with the Women’s Movement for the Defense of Access to Water, Land and Environmental Protection in Chile are under...

March Days of Action in Solidarity with Threatened Water Defenders

Mark your calendars for action in March on behalf of unjustly imprisoned indigenous river defender Bernardo Caal Xol and other...

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