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October 22, 2020 Letter

Human Rights Watch submission to the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs public consultation on due diligence on forest risk commodities

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October 21, 2020 Interview

Interview: Climate Crisis Hurts Harvest for First Nations

Canada Is Failing Indigenous Peoples Facing Threats to Food, Health, and Land

Weenusk First Nations members packing their sleds ahead of a hunt near Peawanuck, Ontario, December 14, 2019.
October 16, 2020 Statement

Brazil: Stop Harassing Environmental Defenders

Judicial Action by Environment Minister Threatens Free Speech

Image of an illegal deforestation strip in the Amazonian forest recorded during the Ibama’s Operation Brigada Verde, in Rondonia, Brazil in August 2019
October 15, 2020 News Release

Indonesia: New Law Hurts Workers, Indigenous Groups

Massive Omnibus Bill Passed With Little Public Consultation

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October 1, 2020 Dispatches

New US Bill Would Help People Working in Dangerous Heat

Increasing Temperatures Threaten Worker Safety

Farmworkers, considered essential workers under the Covid-19 pandemic, harvest beans in Homestead, Florida, May 12, 2020. 
September 21, 2020 Dispatches

Kosovo Lead Poisoning Victims Still Awaiting Justice

20 Years On, UN Should Compensate Victims

Roma children play in the Cesmin Lug refugee camp in Mitrovica city, northern Kosovo. Cesmin Lug is one of several camps that the UN established in what was known to be a heavily contaminated area near a defunct lead mine. December 12, 2007.
September 11, 2020 News Release

Cambodia: Free Detained Youth, Environmental Activists

End de Facto Ban on Phnom Penh Protests

Supporters of Rong Chhun, president of the Cambodian Confederation of Unions, shout slogans in front of Phnom Penh Municipal Court in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020.
August 26, 2020 News Release

Brazil: Amazon Fires Affect Health of Thousands

Bolsonaro Government Fuels Deforestation, Flouts Climate Commitments

The sun rises over a city skyline covered in smoke
July 31, 2020 Commentary

Europe Can Help Us Save the Amazon

Smoke billows during a fire in an area of the Amazon rainforest near Porto Velho, Rondonia State, Brazil.
July 30, 2020 Statement

Cambodia: Appeal Court Set to Rule on Southeast Asia’s First Transboundary Class Action into Human Rights Abuses

July 27, 2020 News Release

Yemen: Allow UN to Secure Oil Supertanker

Houthi Stonewalling Risks Environmental, Humanitarian Disaster

Safer tanker off the coast of Yemen
July 22, 2020 Dispatches

Landmark Decision in Kenya Lead Pollution Case

Government to Pay US$12 Million in Compensation for Smelter Pollution

July 13, 2020 Dispatches

United States Should Ban Use of Glyphosate on Food Crops

Bayer Agrees to US$10.9 Billion Settlement in Case Alleging Pesticide Caused Cancer

Christine Sheppard, in her backyard in Oceanside, California in March 2018, said she sprayed Roundup for years to control weeds on her coffee farm in Hawaii. In 2003, she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, which is now in remission but the cancer treatment causes her severe pain in her hands and legs.
July 13, 2020 Dispatches

US Should Urgently Increase Access to Cooling

Covid-19 Pandemic Exacerbates Dangers of Killer Heat

Patrons get on an express bus set up by the city Phoenix, Arizona, to take people to a heat relief station inside the Phoenix Convention Center, May 29, 2020.
July 8, 2020 Commentary

How the EU Can Help Brazil Save Its Rainforest

Image of an illegal deforestation strip in the Amazonian forest recorded during the Ibama’s Operation Brigada Verde, in Rondonia, Brazil in August 2019

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