More than 1,700 environmental and land defenders have been killed in the last decade. Most of them were Indigenous people and most were in Latin America, a DW analysis shows. Efforts to protect them are nascent.
Public prosecutors have charged three individuals with the June murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in the remote western reaches of Brazil's Amazon rainforest, according to a statement.
Brazilian police now say a man has confessed to the murder of British reporter Dom Phillips and Brazilian land rights activist Bruno Pereira, both of whom failed to return from an investigative trip into a remote part of the Amazon. Global Witness is a not-for-profit group that has been tracking the killings of land defenders for the past 10 years. Marina Comandulli, a campaigner for Global Witness' land and environmental defenders team, says the attacks and killings are happening regularly all over the world and often go unreported.
For years, Ruth Alipaz has been fighting against the Chepete-El Bala hydroelectric project. The project involves the construction of two reservoirs that together would flood at least 66,200 hectares (163,500 acres) of land and displace more than 5,000 people, the majority of them Indigenous communities. “They came to my village to threaten me because of […]