{"id":14786,"date":"2018-07-25T11:48:41","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T19:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elaw.org\/environmental-defenders-under-attack\/"},"modified":"2024-12-09T13:29:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T21:29:58","slug":"environmental-defenders-under-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elaw.org\/es\/environmental-defenders-under-attack","title":{"rendered":"Defensores del medio ambiente bajo ataque"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-image stk-block-image stk-block stk-12767cd\" data-block-id=\"12767cd\"><style>.stk-12767cd .stk-img-figcaption{text-align:left !important;font-size:14px !important;font-style:italic !important;}@media screen and (max-width:999px){.stk-12767cd .stk-img-figcaption{font-size:14px !important;}}<\/style><figure><span class=\"stk-img-wrapper stk-image--shape-stretch\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"stk-img\" src=\"https:\/\/elaw.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/archive\/images_content\/news\/ebulletin\/2018\/2018_07_25_ebulletin_800x566.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"300\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"stk-img-figcaption\">Image: Global Witness<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Advocates challenging environmental and human rights abuses often face threats, intimidation, and harassment.&nbsp; According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalwitness.org\/en\/campaigns\/environmental-activists\/defenders-annual-report\/\">Global Witness<\/a>, at least 207 land and environmental defenders were killed last year, making 2017 the deadliest year on record for environmental advocates.<br>&nbsp;<br>Facing these growing risks, ELAW works to keep our partners safe by training them in physical and digital security measures; petitioning domestic, regional, and international human rights mechanisms; collaborating with them to identify and reduce risks; helping them build strong, robust organizations; and more.<br>&nbsp;<br>ELAW&#8217;s work protecting our partners was featured in <a href=\"https:\/\/therevelator.org\/murder-intimidation-environmental-activists\/\">The Relevator<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div><em>&#8220;International civil society organizations and stakeholders can act to prevent attacks, defend advocates and hold government and corporate perpetrators responsible for attacks on environmental defenders,&#8221; says ELAW&#8217;s [Bern] Johnson. He points to important organizations such as the Defending Defenders Coalition, under which ELAW and other NGOs are forming a joint advocacy strategy, and international and regional human-rights mechanisms such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oas.org\/en\/iachr\/\">Inter-American Commission on Human Rights<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/special-procedures\/sr-human-rights-defenders#:~:text=Ms.,defenders%20since%201%20May%202020.\">United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders<\/a>, which protect environmental defenders and advocates.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Protecting these people, however, is not always easy. &#8220;Because each environmental advocate works in a unique situation, threats against them must be handled on a case-by-case basis,&#8221; says Johnson. &#8220;What helps in one case might do harm in another.&#8221; He says ELAW coordinates with local partners to help people &#8220;reduce their risks and make themselves less attractive targets.&#8221;<\/em><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Learn more about our work and how you can <a href=\"https:\/\/elaw.org\/give\">support ELAW<\/a> by visiting our <a href=\"https:\/\/elaw.org\">website<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/elaw.org\/\">Facebook<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ELAWUS\">Twitter<\/a>. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los defensores que desaf\u00edan los abusos ambientales y de derechos humanos a menudo enfrentan amenazas, intimidaci\u00f3n y acoso. Seg\u00fan Global Witness, al menos 207 defensores de la tierra y el medio ambiente fueron asesinados el a\u00f1o pasado, lo que convierte a 2017 en el a\u00f1o m\u00e1s mort\u00edfero registrado para los defensores del medio ambiente.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":47024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[856],"tags":[30094],"region":[539],"class_list":["post-14786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bulletin","tag-news","region-north-america"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elaw.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elaw.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elaw.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elaw.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elaw.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14786"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/elaw.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56103,"href":"https:\/\/elaw.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14786\/revisions\/56103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elaw.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elaw.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elaw.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elaw.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14786"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elaw.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=14786"}],"curies":[{"name":"gracias","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}