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DoomsdaysCW

Why is violence against #EnvironmentalDefenders getting worse? Five things to know

Maxwell Radwin
11 Sep 2024

"In January 2023, two men mysteriously disappear after speaking out against pollution from a controversial iron ore mine in Michoacán, Mexico.

"The following March, climate change protesters in Austria and Germany are beaten and pepper sprayed, and some have their homes raided by law enforcement.

"In September, a pair of youth environmental advocates are abducted by armed men and interrogated for days about their work fighting construction of a new airport in the Philippines.

"All across the world, environmental defenders continue to experience censorship, threats, physical attacks, kidnappings, disappearances and even death because of their work fighting climate change, deforestation, pollution and other environmental issues.

"Since the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015, more than 1,500 environmental defenders have been killed for their work, according to Global Witness, a human rights and environmental NGO. The figures for 2023 look like more of the same. At least 196 people were killed last year defending the environment, up from 177 in 2022. And those figures are considered a low-end estimate."

Read more:
news.mongabay.com/2024/09/why-

#EnvironmentalActivists #WaterDefenders #EnvironmentalJustice #GlobalWitness #Mongabay #ReaderSupportedNews
#IACHR #ExtractiveIndustries
#Mining #Logging #LandDefenders #WaterIsLife #HumanRights
#Capitalism #Greed #Corruption
#CorporateColonialism #LatinAmerica #Phillipines #India #Indonesia #Honduras #DemocraticRepublicOfCongo #PublicOrderAct #SilencingDissent #HR9495 #CriminalizingDissent

Mongabay Environmental News · Why is violence against environmental defenders getting worse? Five things to knowIn January 2023, two men mysteriously disappear after speaking out against pollution from a controversial iron ore mine in Michoacán, Mexico. The following March, climate change protesters in Austria and Germany are beaten and pepper sprayed, and some have their homes raided by law enforcement. In September, a pair of youth environmental advocates are abducted […]
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Ms. Que Banh

His #documentary on the #Aswang Phenomenon from the #Phillipines

m.youtube.com/watch?v=2ePhqoyL

"Why did a Canadian make an aswang documentary and create The Aswang Project? The simple answer is because nobody else did.  Also, Philippine Mythology is awesome!  When I first became interested in Filipino #Folklore back in 2004, I was shocked to find that there was no standardized educational resource for this part of Philippine history.  More so, that the information regarding the aswang was inconsistently recycled and scattered.   I wished I could find a single resource as a jumping off point to learn more about the history, evolution and societal impacts of the aswang.  This is why I made “The Aswang Phenomenon” documentary.

The documentary was a labour of love and I had no idea how it was going to be received.  After a short festival run, the documentary was released to the public on October 31,  2011.  Three and a half year on, I can’t express my gratitude to those who have embraced the documentary and shared it with others.  It is included in university libraries all over the world and has become a staple in many college courses in the Philippines.  It is approaching 2 million views on YouTube and has spawned thousands of online comments and discussions."

aswangproject.com/jordan-clark

YouTubeThe Aswang Phenomenon - Full DocumentaryBy The Aswang Project
#AsianMastodon#AsianMythology#Supernatural
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DoomsdaysCW

Report highlights disproportionate killings of #IndigenousEnvironmentalActivists

PBSNewshour, Nov 16, 2024

"Leaders at the United Nations’ #COP29 #CimateChange summit are being pressed this year to address the rising threats to #environmentalists and defenders of #HumanRights. Ali Rogin looks at the challenges facing these activists around the world and speaks with Laura Furones, a senior adviser at the environmental watchdog and advocacy group Global Witness, to learn more.

Watch / read transcript:
pbs.org/newshour/show/report-h

PBS News · Report highlights disproportionate killings of Indigenous environmental activistsBy Ali Rogin
#GlobalWitness#Phillipines#SouthAfrica
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DoomsdaysCW

Missing voices: The violent erasure of land and #environmental #defenders

September 2024

"This report and our campaign are dedicated to all those individuals, communities and organisations bravely taking a stand to defend human rights, their land, and our environment.

"Last year [2023], 196 people were murdered for doing this work.

"We also acknowledge that the names of many defenders who were killed last year may be missing, and we may never know how many more gave their lives to protect our planet. We honour their work too."

Read their names here:
globalwitness.org/en/campaigns

Global WitnessThe violent erasure of land and environmental defenders | Global WitnessLand and environmental defenders faced brutal silencing tactics in 2023, with a record year for killings in Colombia and criminalisation cases across the world
#LandDefenders#WaterProtectors#HumanRightsDefenders
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DoomsdaysCW

From the Bretton Woods Project: Continued #FossilFuel investments

"In terms of its direct lending, the [#WorldBank] ’s investments in #FossilFuels have been criticised for undermining climate goals – with the Bank continuing to fund a considerable number of fossil fuel projects in the years after the Paris Climate Agreement was signed in 2015, which saw countries jointly commit to limit average global temperature rise to 'well below 2°C” relative to preindustrial levels. Despite the Bank’s recent climate commitments (see Observer Spring 2018), CSOs remain concerned that the Bank lacks a comprehensive approach to align its entire lending portfolio with the Paris Agreement. In addition to project finance for oil and gas infrastructure, there are other remaining types of Bank investments that are a cause for concern. The IFC now invests nearly 50 per cent of its portfolio in FI, and a lack of sub-project disclosure in these investments makes it difficult to assess the exposure of these investments to fossil fuels, including coal (see Governance above). However, CSO research has linked IFC FI investments to the construction of 19 new coal-fired power plants in the Philippines, while another report found IFC FI investments linked to 41 new coal plants between 2013 and 2016. While the IFC announced a new Green Equity Strategy in October 2018 that will require new FI clients to divest from coal over time, this policy will not affect past FI investments (see Observer Winter 2018).

"CSOs are also concerned that the World Bank has thus far not developed a framework to assess the climate impacts of its Development Policy Finance. CSO research has found that in some cases, these contain ‘prior actions’ that benefit the fossil fuel and extractive industries. Finally, the Bank’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) has in recent years provided a number of guarantees that have backed fossil-fuel projects. According to CSO research, in FY16, MIGA did not support a single renewable energy project: '[its] guarantees to energy were worth $1.9 billion … of which $0.9 billion went to fossil fuel projects', with the rest going to projects such as hydropower dams, often with detrimental environmental and human rights impacts."

Report from #OilChangeInternational

Cross Purposes: After Paris, Multilateral Development Banks Still Funding Billions in Fossil Fuels

October 12, 2017

"A new report shows how multilateral development banks, including the World Bank, gave over $9 billion in funding for fossil fuel projects in 2016, nearly all of it following the Paris Agreement being reached and despite claims that they were acting on climate and adjusting their investment strategies."

oilchange.org/publications/dev

#HydropowerDams#EnvironmentalImpacts#HumanRights
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retrocompmx

El 19 de noviembre de 1981, el dictador presidente de Filipinas (1965-1989) Ferdinand Marcos, prohíbe en ese país todos los videojuegos, “debido a las preocupaciones de padres y profesores por su impacto sobre la moralidad de los niños”.
Por orden presidencial, los filipinos tenían solo 2 semanas para entregar o destruir su consolas y videojuegos, so pena de cárcel a quien no se someta a la regulación estatal
#retrocomputingmx #gaming #phillipines

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