Extraction projects tend to operate in Latin America’s most vulnerable ecosystems and usually on indigenous land, where according to many states’s international obligations require governments to consult local communities. - Janel Martin Janel is the creator of a poignant movie about the father's disenfranchisement in the birth process, The Other Side of the Glass. In Mexico, artist, activist and mother Isabel Cabanillas de la Torre was killed with a bullet to the head. The collaboration between the state and its institutions, and multinational companies was also evident in Mexico. It was precisely this binding aspect that caused the most controversy during the talks, as it ran counter to the interest of several countries like Colombia and Brazil, despite both having the highest rates of violence against activists. Amado Gomez, Homero’s brother, stated, “Something strange is happening, because they’re finishing off all the activists, the people who are doing something for society.”. Privacy Policy | You can find more information in our data protection declaration. Currently, Jagger is campaigning against the construction of a 30 meter deep, 178 mile, $50 billion shipping canal that would cut through Nicaragua.

The "Escazu Accord" is only the second regional agreement on environmentalists' rights in the world.

In attempts to evict Acuña from her land, Newmont accused her of illegally squatting on the land which it claims to have bought. If allowed to go ahead, it will be an environmental crime.”. "It is time for countries to step forward," she says, and come to the defense of the defenders. "It is the first binding agreement worldwide that includes an article that compels countries to prevent, legally prosecute and sanction any threats, coercion and violations against environmental human rights defenders," Born told to DW. For Capriles, this part is the biggest challenge because it depends on the will of the countries to "elaborate norms that will allow for the full implementation of the accord. that would cut through Nicaragua. Now, Latin America is hoping to end violence against environmental activists with the approval of the landmark "Regional Agreement for the Access of Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice on Environmental Issues in Latin America and the Caribbean.". Wordpress development by Robert Gourley. Last month, Zuñiga and other members of COPINH were attacked by men with machetes as they drove back from a community visit in central Honduras.

A former staff member of FUNAI and chief of environment services, Maxciel Pereira dos Santos was in direct confrontation with the Brazilian government’s capitalist policies. However, the community still lacked a definitive land title. Bianca Jagger (@Biancajagger), 72, is the founder, President and Chief Executive of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation, a Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador, and an International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Bonn Challenge Ambassador, a member of the Executive Director’s Leadership Council of Amnesty International USA, a member of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court, and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). Environmental activists don’t have an easy job; in fact Latin America is the deadliest place for environmentalists. According to COPINH, the organization has stopped at least 50 logging projects and 10 hydroelectric dams that have threatened Lenca communities. Walmart, Sears, Amazon, Ebay et al sell Do-It-Yourself Circumcision Torture Devices, Pizzagate: The Instagram Profile of Washington’s 49th Most Powerful Man, 20-Year OSHA Director & Instructor Clarifies The Mask Narrative, Coordinated Attacks on Real News Websites May Herald Major Operation, Oliver Stone’s “Revealing Ukraine”: A Disaster Capitalism Success Story, Dr. Roberto Petrella raises alarm re tests & vaccines, Unabomber was another CIA Mind Control Experiment, BOMBSHELL – Corvelva Releases Next Vaccine Analysis Results, How to deprogram monarch mind control sex slaves celebrities, PDF: “War is a Racket” by Gen. Smedley Butler, Blood Drinking Among the Elite: The Genetic Connection, Wolfgang Halbig has stunning evidence that Sandy Hook Elementary School was closed months before ‘massacre’, The vaccine discovery that destroyed Judy Mikovitz’s career, Bill Gates Negotiated $100 Billion Contact Tracing Deal with Dem Congressman Sponsor of Bill 6 Months before Pandemic began, Bill Gates paralyzed half a million children with polio vaccines, United States Government is a Luciferian Theocracy, Georgia Senator Nancy Schaefer Murdered by Child Trafficking Ring, Franklin Coverup: The White House Call Boy Ring, Deathbed confessions, photos support claims that German-born George H. Scherf(f), Jr., was the 41st U.S. president, Chinese Scientist Finds “Killer Coronavirus Probably Originated From A Laboratory In Wuhan”, “China will catch a cold” – nefarious plans from a 2010 meeting in the City of London – The Anglo-Saxon Mission + 2020 update, send draft to all Illuminati members worldwide. Indigenous communities, however, described the bill as “genocide”. “Ukrainian Fighter Jet Shot Down MHI7″, Say Eyewitnesses, Bush, Blair found guilty of war crimes in Malaysia tribunal, Flynn Lawyer Says Shocking Clinton Material On Anthony Weiner’s Laptop, Recommends Military Examine It, Postpartum Depression Up 7-Fold in Last 15 Years, general anesthesia in cesareans increases odds, Gates and the Injection Fraud: Catherine Fitts interviews James Corbett, SHOCK REPORT: CDC Quietly Updates COVID-19 Numbers – Only 9,210 Americans Died from COVID-19 Alone – Others Had Serious Pre-existing Illnesses, Photos Surface of CNN President Zucker’s Wife at Multiple Parties with Jeffrey Epstein’s Lady Pimp, ADRENALIZED BLOOD DRINKING ADDICTION AMONG THE GLOBAL ELITE, Fauci’s questionable priorities and conflicts of interest, Satangate: Jennifer Guskin on John McCain, America’s Greatest Child Sex Scandal: Boys Town in Lincoln, Nebraska. It’s no coincidence, then, that environmental activists in Latin America also tend to be Indigenous rights activists. "All healing is essentially the release from fear." If allowed to go ahead, it will be an environmental crime.”, Isidro Baldenegro was a prominent indigenous activist, a leader of the Tarahumara people. Co-founded and formerly led by her mother, Zuñiga is now the leader of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (. The report by Front Line Defenders released in January 2020 reveals that 304 activists were murdered worldwide in 2019. , the world’s most prestigious environmental award, for work she has done to prevent the mine from destroying the two lakes, her farm and the supply of fresh water to her community. Efforts to obtain a definitive land title have faced numerous challenges, including the mysterious disappearance of official documents critical to the titling process.

Illustrated portraits by Joel Kimmel. “Latin America is home to the vast majority of the world’s biodiversity, and because of this, there are also huge rates of murder and persecution of environmental activists in Latin America.” A higher court ruled in her favor and stopped its eviction proceeding. See the documentary film made about John and his work at Zielinski.See more at America's MIA Children, John's website. The agreement asks states to guarantee a safe and auspicious space in which people, groups and organizations that promote environmental issues can carry out their activities without fear, restrictions or danger. Last Wednesday, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro stepped up on his earlier rhetoric in 2019 to make indigenous lands available for mining, agriculture and energy companies, purportedly indicating equal opportunity by allowing indigenous communities to participate in the so-called development of their land.

The region where most environmental activists die each year is taking action with a new landmark agreement. , a Russian conglomerate, have claimed ownership of part of Lote 9. International Union for Conservation of Nature, (IUCN) Bonn Challenge Ambassador, a member of the Executive Director’s Leadership Council of, Centre for International Governance Innovation, For more than three decades Jagger has campaigned for human rights, civil liberties, peace, social justice, environmental protection, and indigenous rights around the world. Local courts ruled in Newmont’s favor, sentencing Acuña and her family to three years in prison and a fine of about $2,000. , an award winning environmentalist and indigenous rights leader who was murdered a week after receiving threats for opposing a hydroelectric project. She has also supported the Guarani people in southern Brazil protect their land from cattle ranchers, and the Yanomami people in northern Brazil from invasions by gold miners. Highwire: Over $1 Billion in Flu Shot Injuries, Here’s What a Lockdown Should Actually Look Like, Three New Studies Support Vitamin D’s Role in Preventing and Treating COVID-19, Manufacturing Consensus: Covid Hates Us For Our Freedom, Two El Cajon Churches Vandalized with Swastika Images (San Diego), Augmented reality screen on a contact lens & “special communication device”, 10 Alleged Secret Weapons of the US Military, Madrid Erupts As Citizens Clash With Police During Anti-Lockdown Riots, Oklahoma Doctors File Lawsuit Against Mask Mandates, COVID test – overwhelming number of false positives, Melinda Gates Slams Social Media for Spreading ‘Disinfo’, Engdahl: Gates Vaccine Spreads Polio Across Africa, James Corbett: “The Great Reset IS The NWO!” We Are Almost Out Of Time, Democrap Gangsters Caught Buying Fake Votes for Ilhan Omar, Research Shows Chinese Military Psyop Forced World Into Lockdown, FBI agent who found Hillary’s emails on Anthony Weiner’s laptop says he was threatened with prosecution and told to cover it up, New CDC Estimates: Fatality Rate for COVID-19 Drops Again, UK: Students Threatened With Police Action For Displaying Anti-Lockdown Signs in Windows, Gladio: The Pattern of Establishment Use of Terror for Political Manipulation, Vietnam, Syria and the Bankster’s Business Model: Murdering Future Generations, FBI Agent Ted Gunderson Interviews MK-Ultra Survivor Paul Bonacci, Congress is proposing big changes to the National Organic Standards Board – and farmers are raising the alarm, JFK Assassination – The secret no one dares tell, Ukrainian President Poroshenko has been working for the U.S. government since at least 2006, Death By Medicine: Doctor Pharma and the Corporate Care Industry, Another Massively Armed Nutcase Claims to be a Federal Agent, Western Sanctions Against Russia Backfire, BLOOD DRINKING ADDICTION, Halloween Report, Deleted BBC Report.
Legal notice | "Children are suffering from a hidden epidemic of child abuse and neglect." "America is under the mind control of the medical-political establishment and it begins with the disruption of the mother-baby relationship at birth." In 2003, Baldenegro was jailed on false charges of arms and drug possession. At the age of 19, Tot followed a group of 64 Maya Q’eqchi and settled on Agua Caliente Lote 9, one of 16 lots in the departments of  Izabal and Alta Verapaz that were demarcated in the late 19th century, .
What Serra leaves out is the difference in intent between the actions of a person deemed mentally ill, in the case of Bolsonaro’s stabbing, and the actions of a government intent on annihilating indigenous communities to facilitate access, through oppressive policies, of multinational interests in indigenous lands. In 2016 Acuña received the Goldman Environmental Prize, the world’s most prestigious environmental award, for work she has done to prevent the mine from destroying the two lakes, her farm and the supply of fresh water to her community. The community continues its fight to secure its land title. Carmen Capriles, General Coordinator of the Bolivian NGO Reaccion Climatica, told DW that her organization hopes the agreement will "help drastically reduce the murder rate of environmental defenders in the region" through its state-led commitment to recognize the work of activists and ensure their protection.