Illicit economies must be recognized as drivers of deforestation and global climate risk. Climate and biodiversity agreements should align with the UN Convention on Transnational Organized Crime ...

Sofía Jarrín Hidalgo, an Ecuadorian anthropologist and international advocacy advisor for the Western Amazon at Amazon Watch, has over 16 years of experience in human rights and environmental justice.

Raphael Hoetmer, a Dutch researcher, educator, and activist, has lived in Latin America for over two decades. Currently, he is the director of the Western Amazon Program at Amazon Watch, an associate ...

During recent fieldwork in Puerto Rico, students in the Earth Rights Research and Action (TERRA) Clinic at NYU Law met with ...

Joelle Besch is a JD candidate at the New York University School of Law and a former student advocate in the Earth Rights Research and Action (TERRA) Clinic.

Samuel E. Suleiman-Ramos is the executive director of SAM and an ecological restoration practitioner, leading numerous coral reef and seagrass ecological restoration initiatives, marine mitigation ...

Belém puede ser recordada como un punto de inflexión, cuando el mundo dejó de tratar a la Amazonia como una víctima y comenzó ...

Los fenómenos meteorológicos extremos amenazan cada vez más los arrecifes de coral y las comunidades humanas que estos ...

For a human rights movement dedicated to exposing abuses, positive communication does not come naturally. But to make the case for human rights, we cannot rely on fear of a return to the dark past, we ...

Now is the time for Mexico to address the anti-Black racism, xenophobia, and other forms of discrimination that impact Black migrants in the country. In September 2019, African migrants who were ...

Without the ingenuity of feminists from the Global South and networks of committed activists on every continent, we would never have heard the phrase: “Women’s Rights are Human Rights.” When First ...