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  • Toolkit for Latin American Human Rights Defenders Working on Land and Environmental Issues171814
  • Fact Sheet: Land Grabbing in Latin America171817
  • Land Matrix - Latin America171818
  • International Land Coalition - Resources on Latin America171819
  • Guardian : Environment - The Defenders171823
  • Committee on US-Latin American Relations - Land Rights & Dispossession171824
  • Rights & Resources - Latin America171825
  • Namati - Resources on the Americas171829
  • Pachamama Alliance171830
  • ‘Biologists were not part of the crime food chain’: why Ecuador’s scientists are facing violence, threats and kidnapping - Guardian 17.02.25457325
  • He fought to save jungles in Honduras. Now his killing haunts environmental defenders - AP News 20.12.24448209
  • ‘They are waiting for us to give up’: Activists face harassment and killings in campaign to protect rivers in Honduras - Amnesty 27.01.24396946
  • Safety of Peru’s land defenders in question after killing of Indigenous leader in the Amazon - Mongabay 07.12.23388282
  • Latin America most dangerous place for environmental defenders, report says - Mongabay 14.09.23373316
  • Land, territory and environmental defenders are being criminalized for exercising their right to protest - Amnesty 13.09.23373044
  • Killing of Indigenous Ecuador anti-oil activist spurs questions - Al Jazeera 22.05.23347123
  • Latin America had the most attacks on environmental defenders in 2022, says report - Mongabay 05.05.23344872
  • Must Support Environmental Defenders - HRW 15.04.23341591
  • Honduras: Indigenous environmental activist Felix Vasquez killed - Al Jazeera 28.12.20229887
  • Death threats and friction with military force Guatemalan rangers to flee - Mongabay 20.12.21266030
  • Concern grows for Mexican land defender Irma Galindo Barrios, missing nearly 3 weeks - CD 16.11.21263805
  • Colombian environmental official assassinated in southern Meta department - Mongabay 07.12.20227212
  • Chilean environmental activist who opposed dam projects found dead - Guardian 02.12.21270220
  • The dangerous job of protecting the environment in Russia - HRW 01.12.20226611
  • Ntshangase’s voice rings louder than gunshots - The Ecologist 05.11.20222529
  • Podcast: New Latin American treaty could help protect women conservation leaders — and all environment defenders - Mongabay 28.10.20222045
  • We must protect those defending the land and environment in Colombia - Amnesty 08.10.20218890
  • How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources - Guardian 06.10.20218650
  • After documenting land grabs in their reserve, 18 indigenous and black leaders detained in Nicaragua - Pressenza 30.09.20218665
  • Brazil opens 38,000 square miles of indigenous lands to outsiders - Mongabay 08.05.20207147
  • Attacks on environmental defenders continue in Latin America - Open Democracy 29.04.20206099
  • Book: Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil (Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, 2013)171831
  • Book: Land Grab: Green Neoliberalism, Gender, and Garifuna Resistance in Honduras (Keri Vacanti Brondo, 2013)171835
  • Report: Honduras: The Deadliest Country in the World for Environmental Activism - Global Witness 01/17171836
  • Report: Climate Benefits, Tenure Costs The Economic Case For Securing Indigenous Land Rights in the Amazon - WRI 10/16171837
  • Report: The Risks of Defending Human Rights: The rising tide of attacks against human rights activists in Latin America - Oxfam 10/16171841
  • 2017 on course to be deadliest on record for land defenders - Guardian 11.10.17171842
  • The next frontier for palm oil expansion: Latin America - Oxfam 10/16171843
  • Report: ‘We are defending the land With our blood’ Defenders of the land, territory and environment In Honduras and Guatemala - Amnesty 09/16171846
  • Honduras/Guatemala: Attacks on the rise in world’s deadliest countries for environmental activists - Amnesty 09/16171847
  • Latin America 'Most Dangerous Region in the World' for Land and Rights Defenders - Common Dreams 08/16171851
  • Report: A Deadly Shade of Green Threats to Environmental Human Rights Defenders in Latin America - Article 19 08/16171852
  • Report: The criminalization of human rights defenders in the context of industrial projects: a regional phenomenon in Latin America - Obs 02/16171857
  • Land and Indigenous rights defenders in Latin America at most risk of abuse - SBS 01/16171858
  • Latin American Environmentalists Are Paying For Their Protests With Their Lives - Buzzfeed 06/16171859
  • For Latin American environmentalists, death is a constant companion - WP 03/16171863
  • New data on the murder rate of environmental and land activists in Honduras, the highest in the world - Global Witness 03/16171864
  • Latin America’s biggest development bank overlooks widespread illegalities in financing of major highway project in the amazon - Global Witness 03/16171865
  • Report: Foreign pension funds and land grabbing in Brazil - GRAIN 11/15171868
  • Land-rights defenders face growing threat - Al Jazeera 05/15171869
  • Report: How Many More? - Global Witness 04/15171870
  • Amazon indigenous land loss threatens climate, says study - BBC 12/14171873
  • Report: Peru’s deadly Environment: The rise in killings of Environmental and land defenders - Global Witness 12/14171874
  • Land rights in Latin America: where are the voices of indigenous women? - Guardian 07/14171875
  • Report: The many faces of land grabbing Cases from Africa and Latin America - Ejolt 03/14171878
  • Paraguay: Indigenous community records rare land rights victory - Eye on Latin America 06/14171879
  • Report: Deadly Environment: A rising death toll on our environmental frontiers is escaping international attention - Global Witness 04/14171880
  • Smallholders at Risk: Monoculture expansion, land, food and livelihoods in Latin America - Oxfam 23.04.14171883
  • Report: The Power of Oil Palm Land grabbing and impacts associated with the expansion of oil palm crops in Guatemala: The case of the Palmas del Ixcán company - Oxfam 03/13171884
  • For indigenous people in Latin America, land rights are only half the battle - CIFOR 12/12171887
  • Second Report on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders in the Americas - IACHR 03/12171888
  • Report:Land grabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean (pdf) - Taylor&Francis 2012171889
  • Report: The concentration of land ownership in Latin America - ILC 03/11171893
  • Land grabbing in Latin America - GRAIN 03/10171894
  • Models for recognizing indigenous land rights in Latin America (English) - World Bank 01.10.04171897
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