*[Enwl-eng] How to ensure that environmental defenders can play their role freely and safely

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В день открытия Экологической ассамблеи ООН в Найроби пройдет вебинар по 
проблеме защиты экологических активистов.

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Protecting Earth protectors -

How to ensure that environmental defenders can play their role freely and 
safely



UNEA 5.2 - GREEN TENT EVENT



Date:               28 February 2022, 3:30-4:45 pm GMT+3 (Nairobi)

Venue:            Green Tent (press room) @UNEA5.2 + Zoom (hybrid)



Link to webinar: 
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87367157889?pwd=cTFiVWtzS0Q4VHlhbnl1VUswcXprdz09

Webinar ID: 873 6715 7889 - Passcode: 706645



Co-organisers: European Environmental Bureau, Global Witness, Earthworks, 
WECF, Reacción Climatica (Bolivia), PHE Consortium (Ethiopia), Norwegian 
Forum for Environment and Development, NGO Major Group, Women Major Group



Rationale:

Environmental defenders are increasingly under threat in many places around 
the world. Individuals and groups who strive to protect the environment and 
to defend human rights relating to the environment are regularly harassed 
and silenced, subjected to intimidation lawsuits, restricted by repressive 
regulation and orders, arrested, attacked and even killed. In its latest 
report, Global Witness documented the killing of 227 land and environmental 
activists in 2020 for defending their land and the planet, the highest 
number ever recorded.



The UN Environment Assembly (UNEA 5.2) focusses on strengthening action to 
achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Environmental defenders address 
the worsening of the climate crisis, resist ever expanding resource 
extraction and exploitation and seek to protect frontline communities from 
deforestation, land grabbing and pollution linked to mining, dams, logging, 
large-scale agribusiness and other industrial activities. They uphold the 
rights of Indigenous Peoples, farmers and peasants, forest dwellers, women 
and local communities. They fight for long-term sustainability for 
communities against short-term profits for a few. This makes them crucial 
actors in realising the core principles of the 2030 Agenda.



This Green Tent event strives to raise awareness of government 
representatives and civil society gathering at and around UNEA 5.2 on how 
increasing pressures on environmental defenders threaten peace, human rights 
and environmental protection and limit our opportunities to achieve 
long-term sustainability. The event takes stock and gives space to 
experiences from different world regions. It discusses with experts from 
around the globe which measures are needed to ensure that environmental 
defenders can play their roles freely and safely.





Draft Programme:



15:30 - 15:35 Welcome and opening

Patrizia Heidegger, Director for Global Policies and Sustainability, 
European Environmental Bureau, Regional Facilitator Europe



15:35 - 15:45 Global Witness report 2021 on environmental defenders

Jago Wadley, Senior Campaigner, Global Witness



15:45 - 15:50 The situation in Latin America and protection under the Escazu 
Agreement

Carmen Capriles, Reacción Climatica (Bolivia), Co-Chair of the Major Groups 
Facilitating Committee and Women Major Group



15:50 - 16:05 Interventions from environmental defenders



16:05 - 16:15 UN-level efforts to protect environmental defenders

David R. Boyd, UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights and the Environment 
(TBC)



16:15 - 16:25 How can the new rapid response mechanism under the Aarhus 
Convention protect environmental defenders?

Yves Lador, Earthjustice, Geneva (TBC)



16:25 - 16:45 Moderated debate with questions from the audience - closure






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