Learning from international environmental human rights defenders

Date: 27th January 2026
Time: 5:30pm-7pm
Location: Online, Zoom

ERCS is delighted to host an evening of hearing and learning from international Environmental Human Rights Defenders supported by the University of Dundee Scottish Human Rights Fellowship.  

Join this webinar to hear from experts who have challenged power and defended the right to a healthy environment. Speakers will share experiences from the grassroots to the UN, the power of networks and solidarity and the impact of Scotland’s human rights movement on the world.   

Dr Harriet Fildes, Head of Protections Programmes for the Scottish Human Rights Defender Fellowship, will facilitate the discussion with guest speakers:  

  • Dr Claudia Samayoa – President of the World Organisation Against Torture, Guatemala  

  • I – Indigenous young leader and Woman Human Rights Defender, Colombia   

  • A – Whistleblower and environmental defender/ Forest Sentinel, West Africa. 

 

To attend, please register for this event by the 26th of January 2026. 

  • Find more information and register for this event here 


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