International Centre for Not for Profit Law has published a guide aiming to map out the scope of standards that protect the environmental activists’ rights to association, peaceful assembly, expression, and participation in decision-making, the type of restrictions that affect the space for environmental defenders and the mechanisms that they can use to enforce their rights and freedoms. The main idea behind the document is to be of use for climate activists and movements fighting against the climate crisis that are under pressure across the globe. Environmental defenders, CSOs, and young activists are subject to fierce repression that can take various forms: introducing laws criminalizing legitimate expression and assembly. Read more here.
Source: ICNL
