Digital Safety Journalists face a wide range of digital threats and it's increasingly important that they protect themselves and their sources by keeping up to date on the latest digital security news…
Respecting Indigenous Rights: An Actionable Due Diligence Toolkit for Institutional Investors In many regions across the world, Indigenous peoples are increasingly experiencing human rights violations, particularly in relation to the extractive, renewable energy, and agribusiness sectors. Institutional investors, as shareholders and…
China: Human Rights and Chinese Business Activities in Latin America In the last two decades, economic and financial ties between China and Latin America have deepened unprecedentedly. Chinese (state) policy banks have become the main creditors of several governments in…
Complicity in Destruction IV: How Mining Companies and International Investors Drive Indigenous Human Rights Violations This fourth edition of the Complicity in Destruction series, developed jointly by the Association of Brazil?s Indigenous Peoples (APIB) and Amazon Watch, briefly summarizes the history of large-scale mining in…
Rights Defenders Under Threat in Ecuador: How Government Protection is Insufficient and Favors Industry Interests The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Mary Lawlor, in her report for the Human Rights Council of December 24th of 2020, noted that 1,323 human rights…
Constellations of responsibility: How Chevron keeps getting away with it Among lush Amazonian flora in Oriente, the eastern region of Ecuador, pits of viscous, black oil dot the landscape. Iridescent streams infiltrate the rainforest. Aerial shots of unobstructed canopy cover…
Decade of Defiance I could tell you that, around the world, three people are killed every week while trying to protect their land, their environment, from extractive forces. I could tell you that…
Frontline Defenders Global Analysis 2021 In 2021, the Human Rights Defenders Memorial (HRD Memorial) investigated and verified the killings of 358 human rights defenders (HRDs) in 35 countries.