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August 29, 2024 Dispatches

Empower Communities to Adapt as Pacific Faces Surging Seas

Governments Need Rights-Respecting Approaches to Planned Relocation Support

The island community of Serua Village, Fiji, July 15, 2022.
August 21, 2024 News Release

US/Oregon: Wildfires Threaten Pregnancies

Socially Excluded Communities Especially at Risk

A helicopter flies over a wildfire in a forest
August 15, 2024 Dispatches

Deaths of People with Disabilities Surge in Spain, As Does the Heat

Better Data Needed to Improve Protections

Fernando Uceta, who has COPD, uses a portable oxygen concentrator to breathe as he sits on the balcony of his home during the summer heatwave, in Barcelona's Raval neighbourhood, Spain, June 27, 2023.
August 14, 2024 Commentary

Community Consultations Must Also Include Women — Not Just Men

A Maasai woman standing near Endulen, Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA), Arusha region, Tanzania, on June 22, 2023.
August 9, 2024 Commentary

Conservation in Tanzania No Excuse to Violate Indigenous Rights

A group of Maasai women and men in traditional Maasai clothing and jewelry
August 8, 2024 News Release

Gulf States: Inadequate Heat Protection Putting Workers in Peril

Migrant Workers Fainting, Vomiting in Summer Heat

Construction workers in Doha, Qatar.
July 31, 2024 News Release

Tanzania: Indigenous Maasai Being Forcibly Relocated

Consult Communities, Restore Social Services in Ngorongoro Conservation Area

A group of Maasai women and men in traditional Maasai clothing and jewelry
July 22, 2024 Commentary

As Europe Heats Up, Silencing Climate Activists is Emerging as a Troubling Trend

Mobile riot gendarmes policing a protest against the construction of a new water reserve for agricultural irrigation in Sainte-Soline, France March 2023.
July 10, 2024 Commentary

Mining for the Energy Transition Needs to Respect Human Rights

The extraction of key minerals used in renewables is accompanied by abuses. The UN must take action to address them.

 Artisanal miners carry sacks of ore at a mine near Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of Congo, October 12, 2022.
July 2, 2024 Commentary

Will the Cattle Industry Be Made to Respect Brazilian Law?

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July 2, 2024 Dispatches

US Should Expand Refugee Definition

People Fleeing Disasters Related to Climate Crisis Need Protection

Displaced residents chat on a school court used as a temporary shelter after the Parana river overflowed its banks due to heavy rain upstream, in Ayolas, Paraguay November 8, 2023.
July 2, 2024 Dispatches

Cambodia: Environmental Activists Sentenced to 6 to 8 Years

Quash All Charges Against Youth-led ‘Mother Nature’

Cambodian environmental activists from the group Mother Nature sit near barricades blocking a street to the municipal court in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, June 5, 2024.
June 30, 2024 Dispatches

ASEAN Environmental Rights Declaration Needs Transparency

Working Group Should Publish Draft, Engage Civil Society

Activists protest against deforestation by palm oil companies on Indigenous land in Papua, outside the Supreme Court in Jakarta, Indonesia, May 27, 2024.
June 25, 2024 Dispatches

Deaths During Annual Hajj in Saudi Arabia Underscore Extreme Heat Dangers

Implement Strong Heat Protections for Citizens, Pilgrims, Migrant Workers

Pilgrims use umbrellas to shade themselves from the sun as they arrive at the base of Mount Arafat, also known as Jabal al-Rahma or Mount of Mercy, during the annual hajj pilgrimage on June 15, 2024.
June 21, 2024 Dispatches

An Homage to a Beloved Indigenous Visionary

Blas Lopez Spent Decades Helping his Community in Panama Navigate Rising Seas

Blas Lopez, a Guna Indigenous community leader from Gardi Sugdub, Panama.

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