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We are thrilled to report that Eduardo Arturo Mosqueda Sánchez, a young Mexican human rights and environmental lawyer, has been freed from detention.  Eduardo has been imprisoned on bogus charges since July 22, when he was seized while working to defend the Nahua people in Jalisco State.

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Join ELAW Fellow Kristina Sabova for a discussion of her organization’s work with ELAW to keep coal in the ground.  Kristina leads an international team of lawyers at Frank Bold, an environmental organization in the Czech Republic. ELAW and Frank Bold are working together to protect communities from polluting coal plants and advance green energy solutions.

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The small Himalayan village of Lippa in far north Himachal Pradesh, India, won a David and Goliath battle last week against the State which sought to move forward on a hydroelectric project that would destroy forest and likely bury Lippa village in a flood of silt.

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In 1986, Olena Kravchenko joined hundreds of school children marching in a May Day parade in Kyiv, Ukraine.

This was five days after the April 26 steam explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant sent a plume of radioactivity over the western Soviet Union, Europe, and the eastern U.S.

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We are thrilled to announce that ELAW partner Zuzana Caputova will be awarded a Goldman Environmental Prize today.

Goldman announced that Zuzana led a successful campaign to protect her community from toxic waste.

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The Register-Guard included a Guest Viewpoint on Sunday by local writer Jourdan Arenson. Jourdan describes the power of the ELAW Fellows Program and how it strengthens the capacity of promising advocates from Ukraine, Morocco, Thailand, and more, to protect communities and the environment.

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Last week, the Government of Nicaragua pulled a "no show" at public hearings before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and also at a working meeting with IACHR and ELAW partner Lottie Cunningham Wren.

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This week, ELAW partner Lottie Cunningham Wren will travel from Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, to Washington, D.C.  to testify at hearings before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

Lottie is a Miskito attorney and founder of CEJUDHCAN.  She is working with community members on Nicaragua's North Atlantic Coast who are under siege in a violent land conflict with settlers.

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A student volunteer group founded in 1995 has grown into the biggest watchdog organization in the Czech Republic.  They call themselves Frank Bold, because they are "frank" about their reasons and "bold" about their actions.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.  once said: "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." This proved true in last week's victory, after 15 years, for nearly 600 former workers exposed to toxic mercury at a now-closed Unilever thermometer factory in Tamil Nadu, India.

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Samira is a law professor at Cadi Ayyad University and our first partner from Morocco.  She is an expert in marine law and speaks English, French, Arabic, and her native Amazigh.

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A massive coal-fired power plant in Punta Catalina, Dominican Republic, threatens air quality, ecosystems, and the health of nearby communities.
ELAW partners at Instituto de Abogados para la Proteccion del Medio Ambiente (INSAPROMA) are working with ELAW to protect communities and shelve the project.

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Yesterday, ELAW Fellow Alla Voytsikhovska (Ukraine) joined Laura Palmese (Honduras), and Ashijya Otwongk (Thailand) for a tour of our local Hayden Bridge Water Treatment Plant.

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For more than 40 years, a Soviet-era chemical factory operated in the town of Kalush, 80 miles south of Lviv in western Ukraine.  Factory discharges contaminated local lands with hexachlorobenzene (HCB), a persistent organic pollutant (POP) and potent carcinogen.

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We wrote to you last year about land conflicts between settlers and Miskito communities on Nicaragua's North Atlantic Coast.  Sadly, things have not improved.

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ELAW partners in Belize have won a strong victory for citizens who want a voice in decisions about proposed developments.

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ELAW Fellow Alla Voytsikhovska has arrived from Lviv, Ukraine, where she works with our partner organization Environment People Law.

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The C.S.  Mott Foundation is celebrating more than 20 years of high impact collaborating with ELAW.

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This month, Belize banned offshore exploration in seven areas within the Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System.

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All the best in 2016 from everyone at ELAW!  Market Watch has recognized ELAW as one of "10 little-known charities that do the most good"!

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The largest independent charity evaluator in the U.S.  awarded ELAW top marks, and named ELAW one of "10 Charities Worth Watching"! 

Friday's Register-Guard featured a Guest Viewpoint by Bern Johnson, ELAW Executive Director.

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Peruvian authorities have repeatedly declared the town of Huaraz under a state of emergency due to melting Andean glaciers and a swelling glacial lake that threatens to inundate the town.  In a pioneering battle, local farmer Saul Luciano Lliyua has filed suit against German energy giant RWE to protect his home from catastrophic floods.

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Mayan beekeepers in Campeche and Yucatan, Mexico, are celebrating last week's Supreme Court decision protecting their community and their bees from environmental hazards, including glyphosate, a toxicherbicide.

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Land conflicts between settlers and Miskito communities on Nicaragua's North Atlantic coast left at least 10 dead in September, and more this month.

ELAW partner Lottie Cunningham Wren, a Miskito attorney, is working with community members to end the conflict.

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Eugene Talk show host Sam Evans from Nonprofit Eugene set up shop in our conference room yesterday and interviewed ELAW Communications Director Maggie Keenan and ELAW partner Laura Palmese, a former ELAW Fellow, from Honduras.

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India's unique environmental court -- the National Green Tribunal -- continues to make waves taking on egregious environmental abuses, including tanneries in Kanpur that have dumped untreated waste into the Ganges for decades.

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More than 10 years ago, ELAW partner Eduardo Salazar and his organization Aja!  came to the aid of a farming community in Murcia whose orchards on the Mediterranean Coast were threatened by a 3,500 unit housing development.  The housing project also threatened Roman ruins.

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Egyptians are concerned that their government is moving forward, without citizen input, to allow multinational cement corporations to switch from clean burning gas to polluting coal-fired kilns.

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"Lawyers around the world are galvanizing to seek climate justice." writes Jennifer Gleason in today's Climate Dialogue series at the London-based Business and Human Rights Resource Centre.