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Africa: New Global Initiative Aims to Place Environmental Defenders At the Heart of Climate Decisions

eriinfo.com1 week ago05 mins

Campaigners are hailing today’s COP30 launch of a new global initiative aimed at advancing the recognition, protection, and participation of environmental defenders in climate decision and policy-making. Co-created with more than 300 environmental activists and defenders across Latin America, Africa, Asia-Pacific and beyond, the new Leaders Action Network for Environmental Activists and Defenders (LEAD) initiative…

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African Journalists and Human Rights Defenders Are Turning to Encryption to Outsmart Surveillance, Safeguard Their Sources, and Keep Vital Stories Alive.

eriinfo.com4 weeks ago08 mins

This statement was originally published on globalvoices.org on 26 October 2025. The speed at which the internet is evolving is making its users increasingly vulnerable. Meanwhile, digital technology, which should help to concentrate and centralize information to prevent losses, offers no guarantee against hacking and theft of personal data by cyber-criminals. Similarly, mass surveillance orchestrated…

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Africa: How Land Grabbing Harms the Environment and Its Defenders

eriinfo.com2 months ago017 mins

When land grabbing banishes communities from their homes, the surrounding environment and biodiversity are left at the mercy of destructive industries The term “land grabs” describes large-scale acquisitions of land that rob communities of access to their homes and livelihoods. While the term has become more common in the last two decades, the concept is…

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Africa: Documenting Killings and Disappearances of Land and Environmental Defenders

eriinfo.com2 months ago019 mins

Every year, Global Witness works with partners to gather evidence, verify and document every time a land and environmental defender is killed or disappeared. Our methodology follows robust criteria, yet undocumented cases pose challenges when it comes to analysing data Global Witness documents killings and long-term disappearances of land and environmental defenders globally. In partnership…

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Africa: 126 Environment Defenders Killed in Africa – Global Witness Report

eriinfo.com2 months ago07 mins

No fewer than 126 by land and environmental defenders were killed or disappeared in Africa since 2012, with Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC, accounting for almost two-thirds of these cases. Other cases are Kenya, six; Liberia, six; South Africa, six; Chad, five; Uganda, five, among several others. The data were part of a report…

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Africa: At Least 146 Land and Environmental Defenders Killed or Disappeared Globally in 2024

eriinfo.com2 months ago08 mins

New Global Witness figures bring the total up to 2,253 from 2012 to 2024 At least 146 land and environmental defenders were killed or disappeared* around the world last year defending their land, communities or the environment, a new report by Global Witness reveals. Today the investigative organisation published its annual report on land and…

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Africa: From History Makers to Title Defenders – Coach Desiree Ellis On Banyana Banyana’s Next Chapter

eriinfo.com5 months ago019 mins

“We are not defending the title — we are evolving as a team” “Unity of purpose was the key to our WAFCON triumph” “We never wasted a loss — every setback became a lesson” With just weeks to go before Morocco kicks off the highly anticipated TotalEnergies CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations finals, all…