New treaty compels states to investigate and punish killings and attacks on people defending their land or environmentOfficials from 24 Latin American and Caribbean states have signed a legally binding environmental rights pact containing measures to protect land defenders,nearly two years to the day since environmental leader Berta Cáceres was killed in her home in Honduras.final year nearly 200 nature protectors were killed across the world, 60% of them in Latin America. The new treaty obliges states to “guarantee a secure and enabling environment for persons, and groups and organisations that promote and defend human rights in environmental things”.
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Source: guardian.co.uk