Over 40 organisations across fifteen European countries are urging their governments to make the EU “anti-SLAPP” directive into national law. 

CliDef submitted advice for UN report about human rights defenders working on climate change and a just transition.

Eron Kiiza was imprisoned after a wrongful conviction under military trials and suffered abuse in detention.

The decision to fine Greenpeace hundreds of millions of dollars threatens the organization’s future in the US, and is intended to silence the movement for climate justice. 

Global Climate Legal Defense provided support to their legal defense team.

Global Climate Legal Defense is calling for the release of lawyer and partner Eron Kiiza from a military prison in Uganda.

CliDef is calling on the Canadian government to halt the imminent deportation of a climate defender.

A regional court in Bataan dismissed the cyber libel charges against two Filipino environmental and human rights defenders

CliDef has led the coordination effort of an incredible ground team to secure the release of Stephen Kwikiriza, a Ugandan climate defender.

CliDef calls on Canada to halt the deportation of Zain Haq, a 23-year-old Vancouver-based and Pakistani-born climate defender.

A Kampala court dropped charges against nine student climate activists who were detained last year for protesting a planned crude oil pipeline that would connect Uganda’s landlocked oil fields to the eastern coast of Tanzania. 

CliDef announced a COP28 legal protection center to support the safety of climate activists attending the UN climate conference in Dubai. 

CliDef has launched a global legal network for climate defenders to provide direct legal services to climate activists attending or acting around COP27