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New report highlights global threats against environmental lawyers

Aryampa Brighton and Kato Tumusiime: “Accessing information from major companies, like EACOP, is difficult and time-consuming.”

Nauê Bernardo Pinheiro: “Information laws fail as agencies either ignore requests or bury lawyers in documents”

Ritwick Dutta: “After the 2022 raid, I was forced to withdraw from sensitive cases. My ability to act as a lawyer was severely compromised.”

Brandon Abdinor and Thobeka Gumede: “It is sometimes easier to engage with communities who are already impacted and that is so unfortunate”

Marco Emanuel Chung Ramos: “It is not just the protection of the environment; it is a protection of what is ours and of who we are”

Olivier Bahemuke Ndoole: “Collaboration with our neighbours DRC, Uganda, and Rwanda is essential”

Juan Carlos Flores Solís: “Ensuring the right to life and self-determination of Indigenous peoples is our main goal”

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Nazeli Vardanyan: “Nothing can stop me as an environmental lawyer”

Syeda Rizwana Hasan: “Environmental justice is intrinsic to every other human rights issue”

Adil Meléndez Marquez: “There is no guarantee that environmental and human rights violations are actually punished”

Muhammad Jamil: “The denial and concealment of public information must be ended now”

Gerthie Mayo-Anda: “I was red-tagged in the nineties. There even used to be a price on my head.”

Sor Rattanamanee Polkla: “We are lawyers, we are law-users, but we are also law-makers”

Fiona Iliff: “It’s very timely to talk about environmental protection in Zimbabwe”

Charles Hector Fernandez: “Review of environmental legislation is urgently needed”

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