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Bolivia: Escazú Agreement Protects Environmental Defenders
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Bolivia: Escazú Agreement Protects Environmental Defenders
“I grew up with a deep respect for nature. I learned from a young age to value natural resources and biodiversity,” said Marcos Uzquiano Howard, a Bolivian park ranger and defender of the Amazon rainforest.Raised among ancestral knowledge and the forest of northern Bolivia, Uzquiano turned that legacy into a way of life: protecting the land, biodiversity, and the people who inhabit it.“My mother and grandmother taught me about respect, telling u…
The approval of the Escazú Agreement, the first regional environmental agreement in Latin America and the Caribbean and the first in the world to contain specific provisions on human rights defenders in environmental matters, was an important achievement for environmental organizations fighting against economic and political interests to safeguard natural resources, and a tool with which to defend themselves.
Statement from Xinka Territory: Escazú, Sign for Life / Comunicado desde Territorio Xinka: Escazú, Firma por la Vida
Unofficial translation by the Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA). You can find the original statement in Spanish further below. CAMPAIGN LAUNCH ESCAZÚ-SIGN FOR LIFE The Youth Commission of the Parliament of the Xinka People of Guatemala, with the firm commitment to protect the environment, the rights of Indigenous Peoples, and
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