Cattle ranching is the leading driver of deforestation in Brazil + traceability is essential to stop deforestation and protect local communities.
Postponing Pará’s cattle traceability system until 2030 weakens transparency and allows deforestation-linked beef to keep flowing through supply chains.
By retreating from international climate cooperation, the US undermines global efforts to safeguard rights and weakens its own capacity to protect people —especially those already most vulnerable — from the worsening impacts of climate change, including within its own borders.
New @hrw.org report: UK authorities have severely restricted the right to protest.
A stark illustration of the escalating crackdown is the case of 5 Just Stop Oil activists who, in July 2024, were sentenced to between 2 and 5 years in prison for merely joining a Zoom call to plan a protest.
#Bulgaria has delayed its exit from coal, trailing behind most EU countries in its transition, and risking breach of new #EU air quality standards. Fresh @hrw.org report shows this contributes to serious health harms, esp for children. It may cost Bulgaria EU funds too. www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...
Despite clear—and powerful—calls from civil society for the #COP30 summit to take bolder steps on climate change and to uphold human rights, the summit failed to make any real progress on the two issues key to stabilising greenhouse gas concentrations: fossil fuels + deforestation.
As #COP30 comes to a close, we remind governments of their international obligations to address climate change as well as to respect and protect environmental defenders' basic rights.
Hear more from environmental defenders at #COP30 ⤵️
Here in Belém, we’re into the last hours of #COP30.
It’s our hope @hrw.org the way Indigenous Peoples have made their presence felt throughout this COP will spur a global commitment towards protecting climate-critical forests, Indigenous Peoples + other forest-dependent communities:
Governments are seldom this brazen when obscuring the true costs of air pollution.
On January 12, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it will stop assigning economic value to lives saved and illnesses avoided when considering air pollution controls.
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Push-back on the latest #COP30 draft:
“We cannot support an outcome that does not include a roadmap for implementing a just, orderly, and equitable transition away from fossil fuels.”
Philippine authorities relocating communities displaced in 2021 by Typhoon Odette have ignored the rights of residents, especially those with disabilities.
In a new report, HRW explores how people with disabilities experience climate-related risks.
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January 2026 was meant to be when the government of the Brazilian state of Pará would roll out a new system, initially announced in 2023, to ensure the traceability of all cattle across its vast herd.
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The White House says the decision was taken because those entities "no longer serve American interests".
UK authorities have severely restricted the right to protest, in contravention of their international human rights obligations, creating an environment in which peaceful dissent is increasingly treate...
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Bulgaria’s delayed decommissioning of coal-fired power plants contributes to dangerous air pollution, risks breaching new air quality standards, and is slowing down the country’s transition away from ...
In Belem, Brazil, as United Nations climate summit (COP30) convened, I marched alongside thousands of activists and Indigenous peoples calling on governments to urgently address climate change and pro...
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Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva began this year's COP30 summit by announcing a global investment fund to pay tropical forest countries to keep trees standing.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on January 12 that it will no longer ascribe an economic value to saving lives and improving public health when considering whether to...
More than 30 countries have co-signed a letter opposing Brazil's draft proposal at the UN climate conference because it fails to include a roadmap phasing out fossil fuels, the Colombian delegation to...
Philippine authorities relocating communities displaced in 2021 by Typhoon Odette have ignored the rights of residents, especially those with disabilities.
