OPINION | ACADEMIA- Making ASEAN a safe place for environmental human rights defenders

April 6, 2024 Editor 1 Comment OPINION | ACADEMIA- Making ASEAN a safe place for environmental human rights defenders

Severe migraine: A student protester holds up a poster based on the packaging design of a headache medicine on Oct. 8, 2020, during a demonstration on Jl. MH Thamrin in Central Jakarta. The poster reads: “The omnibus law causes headaches, environmental damage, workers’ oppression.” JP/Seto Wardhana (JP/Seto Wardhana)

ASEAN nations have some of the grimmest records in terms of defending environmental human rights defenders, only second to Latin America.

Simone Galimberti

With a crippling triple planetary crisis unfolding, how do we put the right to a healthy environment into practice?

Finding an answer to this question was the center of a bold speech by Inger Andersen, the executive director of the United Nations Environment Program, given at the United Nations Climate Conference (COP28) last November in Dubai.

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