09 Mar 2018 Video Environmental rights and governance

Silent Action by Women's Major Group at UNEA3

The Women's Major Group organised a silent action in the memory of the 200 women environmental and human rights defenders who were assassinated during last 12 months while protecting their land and people. Prof John Knox, the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights & the Environment, joined the tribute and read out the names of 21 women who were recently killed. Every week 4 women and men environmental activists are murdered.