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Latin America accounted for 85% of environmental defender killings in 2025, report says
- A report released Wednesday by advocacy group Global Witness documented at least 124 killings of land and environmental defenders worldwide last year, with Latin America accounting for 85% of the deaths.
- Land disputes were linked to 84 killings, more than half the global total, as Global Witness identified suspected links to organized crime in 17 cases and five to contract killers.
- Colombia remained the deadliest country for the fourth consecutive year with 39 killings, while Brazil saw deaths more than double to 26, accounting for 52% of all killings documented globally.
- Indigenous people and small-scale farmers bore the brunt, comprising more than three-quarters of those killed, including seven members of Indigenous Guard community patrol systems protecting their territories.
- Global Witness cautioned that killings remain significantly underreported as land disputes and organized crime converge, though Brazil's Ministry of Indigenous Peoples emphasized that reducing violence requires securing territories and combating illegal activities.
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The country was the second most dangerous in the world after Colombia, according to Global Witness.
·Marousi, Greece
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Murders of environmental defenders doubled in 2025 in Brazil, as perpetrators "can kill people because they are sure they will go unpunished". The post Brazil: Murders of environmental defenders doubled in 2025 appeared first on in.gr.
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BOGOTÁ (AP) — At least 124 defenders of land and the environment were killed worldwide last year, and Latin America concentrated 85% of deaths, while conflicts over land and the...
·Lancaster, United States
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A Global Witness report recorded 124 murders of activists and defenders of the territory in 2025; most died in territorial disputes with armed groups
·Vicente López, Argentina
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