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Stop by ELAW during the Pearl Street Block Party for an Open House on Thursday, September 21, 2017 from 5:00-7:00pm. 

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ELAW staff are shocked and saddened to hear that Tanzanian lawyer Tundu Lissu was shot several times by an unknown gunman near his home in the Tanzanian capital, Dodoma.

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International Law Supports Youth Plaintiffs Case Continuing Trump Administration's Petition would have Catastrophic Implications say Groups.

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Oakshire Inspires!

Join ELAW Tomorrow, 9/6, at Oakshire Brewing.
$1 from every beer sold in our pub is donated to ELAW!

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If you enjoy eating spiny lobster or conch, you may have a role in a tragic situation playing out in remote Miskito villages on the Caribbean coast of Honduras. Here, poorly equipped scuba divers and children, working for industrial fishing operations, venture out in small boats and dive for lobster and conch.
 

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The Times of India quotes ELAW Staff Scientist Dr. Mark Chernaik speaking out about pollution in Chhattisgarh, a heavily forested state in central India known for its temples and waterfalls.

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The Human Cost of Lobster Diving in Honduras

A Global Community Conversation with Diana Vasquez

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Panama is experiencing the social and environmental impacts of open-pit mining, and ELAW partners at Centro de Incidencia Ambiental (CIAM) are working hard to ensure that open-pit mining is discontinued and current impacts of ongoing projects are addressed.

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Tanzanian lawyer Tundu Lissu was arrested last week and spent one week behind bars before being released today on bail. Lissu was an ELAW Partner before joining the Tanzanian Parliament in 2010. Lissu is the President of the Tanganyika Law Society, the country's bar association.
 

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Our partner in Morocco, Dr. Samyra Idlallene, together with the local NGO Association Assalam, hosted a public workshop on issues surrounding sustainable aquaculture.

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ELAW Bulletins, The New York Times, Al Jazeera, and The Guardian have reported on the courageous work of ELAW partner Lottie Cunningham to defend the Miskito and others from violence "fueled by the promise of cheap virgin land, precious timber and gold, which has lured people to the lush tropical rainforests." (The Guardian, 3/1/17)

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Every year, ELAW partners at Environment People Law (EPL) in Ukraine travel to the Carpathian Mountains to conduct a summer school to help promising young advocates hone skills to protect communities and the environment. This year's summer school focused on protecting the climate.

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Last year was the deadliest year on record for human rights defenders, with 281 reported murders (Front Line Defenders). Michel Forst, the UN Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, denounces these "deliberate attacks to eliminate those who are trying to protect their land and their traditions."

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We are pleased to introduce our new ELAW Fellow, Diana Vasquez from Tegucigalpa, Honduras.  Diana is a marine biologist and Executive Director at Centro de Estudios Marinos (Center for Marine Ecology, CEM).

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Lake Chapala is under siege from polluting industries, agricultural run-off, and over-appropriation of water for industrial use -- shortchanging residents and visitors. IDEA has worked tirelessly, for decades, to make community voices heard in efforts to protect the watershed.

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Last week, ELAW summer interns and visiting Fellow Zuzana Caputova
toured the Eugene-Springfield Water Pollution Control Facility, which treats wastewater from more than 200,000 residents in the Eugene-Springfield metropolitan area.

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In 2015, 195 nations signed the Paris Agreement, and committed to working together to prevent catastrophic climate change by capping global temperature rise at 2 degrees celsius above pre-Industrial levels.  ELAW U.S. is shocked and disappointed by the decision of the Trump Administration to leave the Paris Agreement.

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ELAW is collaborating with partners in Kenya to help communities challenge a massive port project and coal-fired power plant proposed for Lamu, a UN World Heritage Site and Kenya's first Swahili settlement.

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ELAW partners in the Dominican Republic are using a novel approach to protect the natural beauty of their Caribbean nation. This week, the Institute of Lawyers for the Protection of the Environment (INSAPROMA) launched the Environmental Education Campaign with Musical Rhythm, with popular singers donating songs with environmental themes.

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A Global Community Conversation with Zuzana Čaputová.

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Help ELAW Meet Our $10,000 GiveBIG Challenge!

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Good news from South Africa - a court nullified agreements the government negotiated with Russia, the United States, and South Korea to develop South Africa's nuclear power program!

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Good news from Mexico - the Dragon Mart development project has been canceled forever!

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ELAW partner Rahul Choudhary and his colleagues at the Legal Initiative for Forests and Environment (LIFE), have filed a petition on behalf of Ridhima Pandey, seeking to protect the climate.

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We are thrilled to welcome Goldman Prize winner Zuzana Caputova to Eugene, where she will participate in a 10-week ELAW Fellowship.  Zuzana is an attorney at Via Iuris, Slovakia's leading grassroots environmental organization.

Developers are proposing to build what would be East Africa's first coal-fired power plant, in Lamu, a UN World Heritage site on Kenya's north coast. In November, ELAW partners at Save Lamu filed a case to block the project.

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Congratulations to ELAW partners at the Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA) who have worked for more than 20 years to protect communities and waterways from toxic tannery emissions.

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Around the globe, grassroots advocates are being killed, imprisoned, and threatened because of their work. We must work together to Defend the Defenders.

Our work is challenging, but we are inspired by the world's leading grassroots defenders, including Alfred Brownell from Liberia who nearly lost his life facing down government and corporations.

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We congratulate CER for obtaining a very important decision today from the Gauteng Division of the High Court that requires the Minister of Environmental Affairs to reconsider the environmental authorization issued for the Thabametsi coal-fired power plant, and directs the Minister to consider climate impacts in evaluating the proposed project.