By Margarita Campuzano | CEMDA's Communications Director
Thanks to your generous help, we continue working to make visible the efforts carried out by people who defend the environment. In Mexico this is one of the most dangerous activities, that can even cost you your life.
Last March we presented our 2020 edition of the Report on the situation of environmental human rights defenders, where we informed about 90 attacks committed against environmental defenders in our country. These attacks range from threats, harassment, stigmatization, physical violence, and even murder. In 2020 alone, 18 environmental defenders were assassinated in Mexico.
In addition to documenting these attacks in the above mentioned Report, we also carried out a campaign named Look at us! (¡Miranos!) through social networks and media outlets with the purpose of raising awareness on these results. We also intend to attract the attention of local and national authorities to the importance of providing material and human resources for the protection of environmental defenders.
We continue to generate guides and training materials. The most recent is a guide aimed for people to know how to defend their water, forests and jungles. In this guide we explain that they have the legal right to be previously consulted on projects that affect their territories and natural resources. Also, we offer them legal tools so that they can self-prepare and present complaints against acts of pollution or destruction of their biocultural heritage.
At CEMDA we believe in continuing to strengthen people's capacities to generate local changes with great potential for global transformation. We invite you to continue supporting us!
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