Defending Human Rights Is Dangerous. Defending Nature Makes It Even Riskier

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By By Katie SurmaMay 20, 2025, 9:00 pm436 ptsTop
Over the past decade, there have been more than 6,400 attacks on human rights defenders, with three-fourths carried out against environmental defenders. By Katie Surma One evening in January 2023, Indigenous leader Antonio Díaz Valencia and human rights lawyer Ricardo Arturo Lagunes Gasca vanished.

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