Earth’s defenses and natural resources killed or disappearing in Latin America last year, report to availability

Bogota, Colombia (AP) – at least 80% of those conditions in Latin America.

The Support in London said the district was again assigned as a major risk for people who prevent their homes, communities and natural resources, recording 120 charges. Colombia lived in the deadly deadland country, with the killing of 48 people – about a third of the world’s cases – followed by Guatemala and 20 Mexico and 18.

The number of murder in Guatemala jumped out five in 2023, which made the world a high value for the capital of the world. Brazil signed up for 12 people, and Honduras, Chile and Mexico each one recorded the disappearance.

“There are many highlights of higher higher violence in Latin American countries, especially Colombia,” Laura Fores, the leading researcher, told the associated media. “These rich countries are natural resources and have large land areas under the pressure of eating food and feeding of feed.

Since 2012, a worldwide Witness wrote the killing and the disappearance of the population and disappearing of the 2,650 and the disappearance of land and the environment worldwide. About three quarters appeared in Latin America, including close charges against nearby cases in 2018, where the district accepted the Escessa agreement – a contract designed to protect natural defenses. PACT requires government to ensure access to environmental information, ensure public participation in taking environmental decisions and take timely steps to prevent protected attacks by those who protect the environment.

“The Escazi contract provides an important Latin American tool and Caribbean,” said Furbones. “But some countries did not confess that, while others show that they are slow and able to do the work in a proper way.” However, governments must use their efforts by full use. “

And the native resistance

The report noted that indigenous people carry a non-violent assignment. They were numbered about one-third of all deadly attacks worldwide last year, despite 6% of the world’s world population. Nine and four percent of all the invaders from the indigenous protectors lined on this report occur in Latin America.

In Colombia South Cawestern Cauca, youths are active to ensure that it will not be the next generation of victims. With Community “Milleros,” or teenage, cultural and cultural security and country protection – to provide leadership roles in preventing armed groups and surrounding fields.

“We can avoid because of our lives and our fields are threatening,” 17-year-old Toribio Leader in Toribio, Cauca, who spoke to AP in July.

These programs indicate how communities plan on the types of violence, just as Colombia remains a very deadly country of protecters.

Small farmers were also very addressed, 35% of victims in the region. Many execution was integrated into the world’s conflicts, and many were linked to industries such as the mining, the logging and the Agribusiness. Organized criminal groups are suspected that they are at least 42 charges, followed by private armies and employers.

Colombia is one of the worst beats

The Amazonian Department of Petunto in Southern Colombia shows a lot of risks facing protectors. With its artificial strategies and Amazon, the region is rich in the forests, rivers and cultural information. But he also lives at the edge of armed debates, projects that can be made and illegal economies. Armed groups work long-term Putongo River as a smuggler towards Brazil and Ecuador, where weak controls make to move cocaine, minerals and lost money.

Theological protector there, who asked to continue unknown because of fear was reinforced, telling the AP created one of the most hostile weather conditions in the country.

“Protecting rights here means living under a permanent threat,” said a source. “We are facing pressure from illegal mining, oil projects are tied to armed groups, deforestation and a coalition of Coca. Talking often.

Andrew Miller of Amazon Watches Nonzela Refrecy said the networks of the Transnational Criminity Criminational is involved in drugs, gold and platforms are usually deadly attacks – against the environmental attacks.

“The amazon defense status is increasingly guilty,” said Miller.

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