Month: October 2023

This year’s APEHRD Forum’s theme gave focus on data collection and the importance of reporting incidents of the different types of attacks to environmental defenders. Lack of evidence for a lot of cases were brought up as a large factor in the continuing impunity that many in the Asia Pacific region experience.

In May 2016, former President Uhuru Kenyatta introduced the Climate Change Act, the first of its kind in Africa. It was designed not only to establish mechanisms and strategies for supposedly achieving low-carbon climate development, but also to mainstream climate change as a central agenda in the development process. The legislation was enacted as a…