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Almost half of human rights defenders killed last year were in Colombia

The county was the deadliest for rights activists in 2022, and Latin America and Ukraine together accounted for 80% of the 401 deaths Colombian …

Almost half of human rights defenders killed last year were in Colombia

Ouro Legal e Ouro Ilegal – Se a Barrick Gold Corporation ou os garimpeiros estivessem garimpando ouro em seu quintal e contaminando sua única fonte …

Local legal de mineração de ouro contamina terras Indígenas com cianeto! Direito à vida em vez de lucros legais de ouro! Local illegal de mineração …

Ouro Legal e Ouro Ilegal – Se a Barrick Gold Corporation ou os garimpeiros estivessem garimpando ouro em seu quintal e contaminando sua única fonte …

Estrategia de sostenibilidad financiera de los gobiernos Indígenas del macroterritorio de los jaguares del Yuruparí — Ecoamazônia

En los departamentos colombianos de Amazonas, Vaupés y Guainía se ubican las denominadas Áreas No Municipalizadas (ANM), territorios que han sido …

Estrategia de sostenibilidad financiera de los gobiernos Indígenas del macroterritorio de los jaguares del Yuruparí — Ecoamazônia

Climate Tracker is looking for 15 Caribbean Climate Justice Fellows! Journalists, apply now!

Petchary's Blog

Here in the Caribbean, we need more journalists writing about the climate crisis. We often seem to tiptoe around the issue, as if we are afraid to mention it. What could be more important than the biggest existential threat to our Planet and ourselves? But then, our politicians only mention it when it’s convenient, or on an international stage.

Be that as it may, we really need our reporters to explain, to make connections, to point out that – well, this is climate change; here we are. We don’t have many self-declared environmental journalists, even though in Jamaica many of the television stories on our screens each evening are environment-related: tourism developments affecting (and excluding) fisherfolk, for example; disaster preparedness; drought and floods. This topic is part of an excellent three-part series by former Caribbean Climate Justice Fellow and Television Jamaica reporter Kelesha Williams, entitled “Barred from the Beach,” currently…

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