Stepping Up for Environmental Activists
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© Orlando Sierra/AFP/Getty Exactly two years after Honduras’s Berta Caceres was murdered in her home, 24 Latin American and Caribbean countries have formed a legally binding agreement to protect environmental activists. Officially known as The Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin American and the Caribbean, the measure is intended to help give a voice—and, if necessary, a recourse—to the people whose lives are most immediately affected by development projects. It’s a first for a region where violent attacks on environmental activist are all too common, and it’s a welcome step towards defending a core value of open society: the right to assemble and protest.
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