Callamard said governments’ failure to address the impacts of the climate crisis in spite of overwhelming scientific evidence “may well be the biggest inter-generational human rights violation in history.”
Earlier this month, the Department of Health said that TVI had not yet submitted the required HIA for its planned third coal plant
Global Witness pointed out that “more environmental defenders have been killed in the country than anywhere else in the region over the past 11 years.”
Mainstreaming L&D will likely take years, even decades, given various challenges that also make popularizing climate change difficult
Data from Kalikasan PNE indicates even graver figures, with 21 defenders killed and 11 abductions of 19 defenders reported.
Are we ready to fight for that change? If we’re not, the Quiboloys of the world will continue to thrive in the shadows of a broken system.