Colombia: Colombia Deadliest Country for Environmentalists in 2023, Rights Group Says

Sep 10, 2024 | Oliver Griffin, Reuters
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Colombia, host nation for this year's United Nations COP16 biodiversity conference, was the deadliest country for environmentalists and land rights defenders in 2023, with a record 79 killed, according to UK advocacy group Global Witness. The number of murdered environmental activists was the highest Global Witness has ever recorded for a single country in any given year since it started monitoring such killings in 2012, it said in its annual report published on Monday.