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CANCELLED: The far-right, extractivism and the crackdown on trade unions and environmental activists in Colombia and Brazil
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The far-right is accelerating climate devastation in Colombia and Brazil, at the same time as cracking down on trade unions and environmental activists: Colombia alone had 65 environmental defenders killed in the last year. How are these movements fighting for a just transition and climate action, and how can we support them?
Contributors: Hector Vaca, Head of Human Rights, USO, Colombian Oil Workers’ UnionSonia Guajajara, Executive Director, Brazil's Indigenous People Articulation (APIB) Nilto Tatto, Environmental Secretary, Brazilian Workers' Party We are also following leads for a Colombian environmental defender or coca farmer’s association leader
