😶 SLAPPs – abusive lawsuits designed to intimidate and exhaust their targets – are becoming a major threat to environmental defenders across Europe.

If EU leaders are serious about their democracies, they need to act 👉
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✊ Today, on May 21 – the Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners in Belarus – we stand with all those imprisoned for peaceful activism, including environmental defenders.

Learn more about those being persecuted and how you can support them 👉 ecohome.ngo/political-pr...

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🚨 Europe’s environmental crisis is intensifying, yet environmental defenders are facing more resistance and risk than ever.

🧐 @yeenetwork.bsky.social's Emma Pagliarusco explores their role and how the #BeLIFE project can #SupportEnvDefenders:
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Wonder how it feels to be SLAPPed?

Check out this short film by @greenpeace.org starring Javier Bardem & Yasmin Finney to find out.

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🟢 Russian: Руководящие принципы, касающиеся права на мирный экологический протест и гражданское неповиновение 👉 unece.org/sites/defaul...

🟢 English: Guidelines on the right to peaceful environmental protest and civil disobedience 👉 unece.org/sites/defaul...

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💁 Whether it’s an ombudsman office, EU institution, or a body like the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee or its Rapid Response Mechanism, the portal helps you find where to go and how to act.

🖱️Click through it now or share it directly with the defenders in your network!

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