{"id":35391,"date":"2024-09-10T21:33:20","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T21:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/more-than-2100-environmental-activists-killed-worldwide-over-last-decade"},"modified":"2024-09-10T21:54:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T21:54:32","slug":"more-than-2100-environmental-activists-killed-worldwide-over-last-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/more-than-2100-environmental-activists-killed-worldwide-over-last-decade","title":{"rendered":"More than 2,100 environmental activists killed worldwide over last decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Eritrea. <\/strong><\/span>More than 2,100 environmental activists were killed worldwide between 2012 and 2023, with Latin America holding the highest percentage globally, an international non-governmental organization (NGO) said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The new report by Global Witness said an estimated 196 land and environmental defenders were killed around the world in 2023 alone.<\/p>\n<p>The report found that Colombia was found to be the deadliest country in the world for environmental activists, with 79 deaths in total last year.<\/p>\n<p>Other deadly countries last year in the region included Brazil, with 25 killings, and Mexico and Honduras with 18 each, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, Latin America had the highest number of recorded killings worldwide, with 166 killings overall, including 54 across Mexico and Central America and 112 in South America.<\/p>\n<p>Laura Furones, senior advisor to the Land and Environmental Defenders Campaign at Global Witness, said that the number of killings remains &#8220;alarmingly high, and simply unacceptable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the climate crisis accelerates, those who use their voice to courageously defend our planet are met with violence, intimidation, and murder,&#8221; said Furones, who is also lead author of the report.<\/p>\n<p>She urged governments to take decisive action to protect defenders and to address the underlying drivers of violence against them.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source: NGO<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Eritrea Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Eritrea. More than 2,100 environmental activists were killed worldwide between 2012 and 2023, with Latin America holding the highest percentage globally, an international non-governmental organization (NGO) said Tuesday. The new report by Global Witness said an estimated 196 land and environmental defenders were killed around the world in 2023 alone. The report found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":35390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[5388,466,534,233,3209,5390,3212,5389],"class_list":["post-35391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-files","tag-activists","tag-climate-change-2","tag-environment","tag-eritrea","tag-global-witness","tag-land-and-environmental-defenders","tag-latin-america","tag-laura-furones"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>More than 2,100 environmental activists killed worldwide over last decade - Eritrea<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"More than 2,100 environmental activists were killed worldwide between 2012 and 2023, with Latin America holding the high ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/more-than-2100-environmental-activists-killed-worldwide-over-last-decade\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"More than 2,100 environmental activists killed worldwide over last decade\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"More than 2,100 environmental activists were killed worldwide between 2012 and 2023, with Latin America holding the high ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/more-than-2100-environmental-activists-killed-worldwide-over-last-decade\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Eritrea\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-09-10T21:33:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-09-10T21:54:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/27\/2024\/09\/sm_1725988964.273273.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"864\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"487\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/more-than-2100-environmental-activists-killed-worldwide-over-last-decade#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/more-than-2100-environmental-activists-killed-worldwide-over-last-decade\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"More than 2,100 environmental activists killed worldwide over last decade\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-09-10T21:33:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-09-10T21:54:32+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/more-than-2100-environmental-activists-killed-worldwide-over-last-decade\"},\"wordCount\":214,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/more-than-2100-environmental-activists-killed-worldwide-over-last-decade#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/27\/2024\/09\/sm_1725988964.273273.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Activists\",\"Climate change\",\"Environment\",\"Eritrea\",\"Global Witness\",\"land and environmental defenders\",\"Latin America\",\"Laura Furones\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"files\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/more-than-2100-environmental-activists-killed-worldwide-over-last-decade#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/more-than-2100-environmental-activists-killed-worldwide-over-last-decade\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/more-than-2100-environmental-activists-killed-worldwide-over-last-decade\",\"name\":\"More than 2,100 environmental activists killed worldwide over last decade - Eritrea\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/more-than-2100-environmental-activists-killed-worldwide-over-last-decade#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/more-than-2100-environmental-activists-killed-worldwide-over-last-decade#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/27\/2024\/09\/sm_1725988964.273273.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-09-10T21:33:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-09-10T21:54:32+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"More than 2,100 environmental activists were killed worldwide between 2012 and 2023, with Latin America holding the high ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/more-than-2100-environmental-activists-killed-worldwide-over-last-decade#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/more-than-2100-environmental-activists-killed-worldwide-over-last-decade\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/more-than-2100-environmental-activists-killed-worldwide-over-last-decade#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/27\/2024\/09\/sm_1725988964.273273.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/27\/2024\/09\/sm_1725988964.273273.jpg\",\"width\":864,\"height\":487,\"caption\":\"More than 2,100 environmental activists killed worldwide over last decade\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/more-than-2100-environmental-activists-killed-worldwide-over-last-decade#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"More than 2,100 environmental activists killed worldwide over last decade\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/\",\"name\":\"Eritrea\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"More than 2,100 environmental activists killed worldwide over last decade - Eritrea","description":"More than 2,100 environmental activists were killed worldwide between 2012 and 2023, with Latin America holding the high ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/more-than-2100-environmental-activists-killed-worldwide-over-last-decade","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"More than 2,100 environmental activists killed worldwide over last decade","og_description":"More than 2,100 environmental activists were killed worldwide between 2012 and 2023, with Latin America holding the high ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/more-than-2100-environmental-activists-killed-worldwide-over-last-decade","og_site_name":"Eritrea","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2024-09-10T21:33:20+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-09-10T21:54:32+00:00","og_image":[{"width":864,"height":487,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/27\/2024\/09\/sm_1725988964.273273.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/more-than-2100-environmental-activists-killed-worldwide-over-last-decade#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/more-than-2100-environmental-activists-killed-worldwide-over-last-decade"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"More than 2,100 environmental activists killed worldwide over last decade","datePublished":"2024-09-10T21:33:20+00:00","dateModified":"2024-09-10T21:54:32+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/more-than-2100-environmental-activists-killed-worldwide-over-last-decade"},"wordCount":214,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/more-than-2100-environmental-activists-killed-worldwide-over-last-decade#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/27\/2024\/09\/sm_1725988964.273273.jpg","keywords":["Activists","Climate change","Environment","Eritrea","Global Witness","land and environmental defenders","Latin America","Laura Furones"],"articleSection":["all news","files"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/more-than-2100-environmental-activists-killed-worldwide-over-last-decade#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/more-than-2100-environmental-activists-killed-worldwide-over-last-decade","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/more-than-2100-environmental-activists-killed-worldwide-over-last-decade","name":"More than 2,100 environmental activists killed worldwide over last decade - Eritrea","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/more-than-2100-environmental-activists-killed-worldwide-over-last-decade#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/more-than-2100-environmental-activists-killed-worldwide-over-last-decade#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/27\/2024\/09\/sm_1725988964.273273.jpg","datePublished":"2024-09-10T21:33:20+00:00","dateModified":"2024-09-10T21:54:32+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"More than 2,100 environmental activists were killed worldwide between 2012 and 2023, with Latin America holding the high ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/more-than-2100-environmental-activists-killed-worldwide-over-last-decade#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/more-than-2100-environmental-activists-killed-worldwide-over-last-decade"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/more-than-2100-environmental-activists-killed-worldwide-over-last-decade#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/27\/2024\/09\/sm_1725988964.273273.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/27\/2024\/09\/sm_1725988964.273273.jpg","width":864,"height":487,"caption":"More than 2,100 environmental activists killed worldwide over last decade"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/more-than-2100-environmental-activists-killed-worldwide-over-last-decade#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"More than 2,100 environmental activists killed worldwide over last decade"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/","name":"Eritrea","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}