YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
This is a resource portal for Indigenous, Land and Environmental Defenders (ILEDs) containing important information designed to support and strengthen their work.
Environmental, land and indigenous defenders
are facinga crisis.
The environment is a new battleground for human rights. As demand for products like timber, minerals and palm oil continues to rise, governments, companies and criminals are exploiting land with little regard for the people who live on it.
Know your
rights
“The exercise of human rights helps to protect the environment, and a healthy environment helps to ensure the full enjoyment of human rights“
– Prof. John Knox
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support
Get access to:
Library of resources
Organisations offering support
International human rights mechanisms
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inspiring
stories
Around the world, those who defend the environment and the human rights that depend on it face all types of obstacles, challenges and threats. Overcoming adversity, environmental, land and indigenous defenders have been working to change the lives of many.
ALLIED
ALLIED was formed to build a bridge between international, national and local work, and overcome gaps between siloed communities who may be failing to build on each other’s work