Chile ‘Suspends’ in the Escazú Agreement, Which Protects ‘Environmental Defenders’

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The Escazú Agreement was drawn up in Costa Rica’s homonymous city on March 4, 2018 and is the first regional environmental pact in Latin America and the Caribbean. In addition, it is the first in the world to contain specific provisions on human rights defenders in environmental matters. In Chile, a country that has adopted such an agreement and that committed itself in 2023 to implementing its measures and guidelines is not ‘doing its duties we…

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55 visits In March 2024, the Government presented the Plan for the Implementation of the Escazú Agreement in Chile, which in its diagnosis identified as a critical gap the lack of training with a human rights and environmental focus on justice operators, local authorities and law enforcement officials. In response, it undertook to develop specific trainings for officials dealing with cases of aggression against environmental defenders. A year an…

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The document, based on more than 40 requests for information from 22 public bodies, analyses compliance with article 9 of the treaty, which obliges States to recognize, protect and guarantee the work of environmental defenders. Santiago, August 4, 2025. (Escazú Now)– More than three years after Chile’s accession to the Escazú Agreement, the real progress in protecting environmental defenders is “critically insufficient.”