Nine out of ten killings of land defenders in 2022 occurred in Latin America

Online News Editor
September 12, 2023
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London, Sept. 13 (EFE) – A report released Wednesday by Global Witness found that nearly nine out of 10 killings of land and environmental defenders worldwide in 2022 occurred in Latin America.

Among its findings, the report shows that at least 177 activists were killed last year, bringing the total number of land defenders killed between 2012 and 2022 to 1,910.

Presenting the report, Laura Furones, senior advisor to the Land and Environmental Defenders Campaign, said that “as in previous years,” the situation in Latin America remains “particularly worrying.”

Furones noted that 11 of the 18 countries where cases were documented were in this region, and that Colombia was “particularly affected by this serious problem,” with 60 lethal attacks recorded there, more than a third of the killings recorded worldwide.

Since 2012, at least 382 land or climate activists have been killed in Colombia, also making it the country with the highest number of reported murders of land defenders worldwide.

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