Sentence examples for environmental defender from inspiring English sources

Majandra Rodriguez Acha, activist with TierrActiva, Peru Peru is the fourth most dangerous country to be an environmental defender.

Peru is a highly unequal country – if you're an environmental defender living in a rural area under poverty line, and maybe Spanish isn't your first language, and you try to oppose a company that's trying to cut down the food sources you depend on, or oppose a mining company that's polluting the water you rely on, then your life is in danger.

Governments rarely investigate the murders of environmental defenders or punish those responsible.

Working more closely with environmental defenders is not just about protecting individual lives; it's about protecting our planet.

The government will not reverse cuts to environmental defenders officers or revoke restrictions on advocacy by community legal centres.

Finally, trade agreements with countries where environmental defenders are under threat should contemplate measures to prevent, investigate and remedy violations against activists.

At least 109 activists were murdered between 2010 and 2015, making Honduras one of the world's most dangerous countries for environmental defenders.

"In Honduras and across the world environmental defenders are being shot dead in broad daylight, kidnapped, threatened or tried as terrorists for standing in the way of so-called 'development'," Billy Kyte, a campaigner at Global Witness, said in a statement.

At least 109 people were killed in Honduras between 2010 and 2015 for opposing infrastructure and logging projects, making it the most dangerous country in the world for environmental defenders, according to the NGO Global Witness.

These environmental defenders offices were funded through federal government grants (like most community legal centres) but upon the election of the Abbott government, George Brandis, the new attorney general, defunded them.

Margaret Sekaggya, a former UN special rapporteur has warned that environmental defenders in Honduras are being branded by the authorities as "members of the resistance, guerrillas, terrorists, political opponents or criminals", with dangerous ramifications.