Post #3379067

At least 358 human rights defenders were killed last year, according to a report released last week by Front Line Defenders, a Dublin-based group that provides support for global human rights activists. Nearly a quarter, 84, were targeted because of their often unpaid work protecting land and the environment. Those killings were documented in #Brazil, #Colombia, #Ecuador, #France, #Honduras, #Guatemala, #Mexico, #India, #Indonesia, #Peru, #Philippines, #Turkey, #Somalia and #Palestine. Indigenous-rights defenders—often working on environmental issues but tracked separately from environmental defenders—accounted for another 17 percent of the killings documented by the group. There were nearly 4,000 non-lethal attacks on #humanrights defenders across 119 countries last year, a figure that includes multiple violations against the same individual in some cases, according to the report. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22062026/environmental-defenders-are-increasingly-targeted/ Because it's not mentioned in the article: these attacks are part of the #classwar declared by the bourgeoisie against the social majority.