2022 was a particularly deadly year for land and environmental activists

Grist
By Lyric AquinoApr 11, 2023, 10:00 am138 pts
In February of 2022, Colombian human rights activists Teófilo Acuña and Jorge Tafur were assassinated in front of their friends and families after decades of working to protect small, rural communities from mining and land-grabbing. Their killers have not been brought to justice. Acuña and Tafur were just…

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