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Environmental defenders across Southeast Asia face threats, violence and legal hurdles in their fight for justice. Five share their struggles.

The Kingdom’s laws are being misused to silence critics, suppressing vital reporting on human rights and the environment. Can reform protect free speech?

Global Witness warns that mining for green energy is fuelling conflict and human rights abuses in Asia and elsewhere, urging tougher standards and protections.

Climate policies like REDD+ often fail to prioritise Indigenous peoples, undermining their effectiveness in tackling the root causes of deforestation and climate change, according to a recent study.

By Kristine Sabillo

By Leila Goldstein, Eung Sea

By Surendra Phuyal

Thomson Reuters Foundation

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Climate change is clearly affecting the Philippines. Whether it can transform a long-held national attribute into successful climate adaptation will determine what the future holds. By Ariel Macaspac Hernandez

With the climate crisis escalating fast, calls for more authoritarian decision-making structures – widely viewed as more efficient – are increasing. But the notion that any version of an authoritarian system would be free of “special interests,” and run by neutral, rational technocrats, is implausible. By Jan-Werner Mueller

Stamping out corruption will be a major challenge to the new government. The relationship between politics and business is a major source of illicit political funds. Will a new bill enhance transparency of political financing or donations? By Khairul Saidah Abas Azmi and Rozaimah Zainudin

Authoritarian governments have weaponised online tools and platforms to control journalists and stifle freedom of expression. By Gayathry Venkiteswaran

By Sophie Wood and Emma Witbooi

By David Cameron, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Donald P. Kaberuka

By Jyotiraj Patra and Christina Hill

By Jurema Werneck and Richard Pearshouse

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Far too many Australian politicians receive financial support from, and give subsidies to, the fossil fuel industry, say climate campaigners. A new initiative by 350.org Australia calls for pollution-free politics in the country.

Non-profit groups WildAid and African Wildlife Foundation have released a video containing undercover footage, exposing ivory laundering in Hong Kong and the loopholes in its regulations on smuggled tusks.

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In celebration of Indigenous Peoples' month in the Philippines, the former United Nations special rapporteur tells the Eco-Business Podcast about her lifelong work to empower communities in Asia’s most dangerous country for environmental defenders.

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