PBI mobilizes for COP27 summit

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Published on Sunday, 29 November -0001 16:00

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More than 1,200 land and environmental defenders have been killed since the United Nations COP21 climate summit took place in Paris in December 2015.

One of those killed was Indigenous Lenca water protector Berta Caceres in Honduras. After her murder, Peace Brigades International began accompanying the organization she co-founded, the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH).

The UN Human Rights Council has affirmed that environmental human rights defenders “must be ensured a safe and enabling environment to undertake their work” given “their important role in supporting States to fulfil their obligations under the Paris Agreement” reached in 2015.

And yet the threats, attacks, criminalization, judicialization and killings continue.

We will be helping to bring together PBI accompanied environmental defenders for a webinar next month during the COP27 summit.

We feel it’s important that their voices be heard.

Looks... for the date and list of speakers coming soon.

If you can help us with a donation to cover some of the costs of this webinar (including simultaneous translation in English/Spanish), please click here.

And be sure to follow us on Twitter for daily updates on PBI accompaniments, including news about the COP27 summit over the coming weeks.

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