Every November 6, the world commemorates the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict, proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 2001 through Resolution A/RES/56/4. This date seeks to remind us that ecosystems, natural resources, and biodiversity are also victims of human conflicts, and that their protection...
At a critical time for the planet, marked by the climate crisis, biodiversity loss and pollution, UN experts have urged Council of Europe ministers to legally recognise the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment as a fundamental human right. The negotiations focus on the need to establish a binding Additional Protocol to the...
‘For hundreds of thousands of years, man has struggled to make a place for himself in nature. For the first time in the history of our species, the situation has been reversed and today it is indispensable to make a place for nature in the world of man’. With this sentence by the Argentinean poet Santiago...
In the annual report “The Land and Environmental Defenders at the frontlines of the climate crisis” for 2023, Global Witness highlighted that Colombia is the country with the highest number of murders of environmental defenders, reaching 60 cases in 2022. Brazil, which ranks second on the list, has registered 34 cases, so Colombia has almost...
