Illicit economies must be recognized as drivers of deforestation and global climate risk. Climate and biodiversity agreements should align with the UN Convention on Transnational Organized Crime ...

Sofía Jarrín Hidalgo, an Ecuadorian anthropologist and international advocacy advisor for the Western Amazon at Amazon Watch, has over 16 years of experience in human rights and environmental justice.

Raphael Hoetmer, a Dutch researcher, educator, and activist, has lived in Latin America for over two decades. Currently, he is the director of the Western Amazon Program at Amazon Watch, an associate ...

During recent fieldwork in Puerto Rico, students in the Earth Rights Research and Action (TERRA) Clinic at NYU Law met with ...

Joelle Besch is a JD candidate at the New York University School of Law and a former student advocate in the Earth Rights Research and Action (TERRA) Clinic.

Samuel E. Suleiman-Ramos is the executive director of SAM and an ecological restoration practitioner, leading numerous coral reef and seagrass ecological restoration initiatives, marine mitigation ...

Belém puede ser recordada como un punto de inflexión, cuando el mundo dejó de tratar a la Amazonia como una víctima y comenzó a desmantelar las economías criminales que impulsaban su colapso. La ...

Los fenómenos meteorológicos extremos amenazan cada vez más los arrecifes de coral y las comunidades humanas que estos ...

Without the ingenuity of feminists from the Global South and networks of committed activists on every continent, we would never have heard the phrase: “Women’s Rights are Human Rights.” When First ...

Now is the time for Mexico to address the anti-Black racism, xenophobia, and other forms of discrimination that impact Black migrants in the country. In September 2019, African migrants who were ...

Structural power imbalances in the UN system have prevented it from halting Israel’s ongoing war crimes against Gazans. Individual states and civil society must step in to prevent further aggressions ...

People with lived experiences of migration must be at the center of efforts to address the growing impact of border technologies. At the Migration and Technology Monitor (MTM), we try to build a ...