Asia Pacific Network of Environmental Defenders
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The Asia Pacific Network of Environmental Defenders (APNED) is a solidarity network for the protection of environmental defenders, environmental rights and climate justice.
📢 SIGNATORY UPDATE📢
Our petition has reached 504 signing organizations and individuals as of January 15, 2026. Our campaign doesn't stop with this petition. Let us continue to create pressure and lobby for the release of Chantal Anicoche.
#ReleaseChantalAnicoche
#DefendMindoro
Our petition has reached 504 signing organizations and individuals as of January 15, 2026. Our campaign doesn't stop with this petition. Let us continue to create pressure and lobby for the release of Chantal Anicoche.
#ReleaseChantalAnicoche
#DefendMindoro
January 19, 2026 at 7:04 AM
📢 SIGNATORY UPDATE📢
Our petition has reached 504 signing organizations and individuals as of January 15, 2026. Our campaign doesn't stop with this petition. Let us continue to create pressure and lobby for the release of Chantal Anicoche.
#ReleaseChantalAnicoche
#DefendMindoro
Our petition has reached 504 signing organizations and individuals as of January 15, 2026. Our campaign doesn't stop with this petition. Let us continue to create pressure and lobby for the release of Chantal Anicoche.
#ReleaseChantalAnicoche
#DefendMindoro
📢 SIGNATORY UPDATE📢
As of today, 292 individuals have signed our call for the urgent release of Chantal Anicoche. As she remains under military custody to date, let us continue our united efforts to free Chantal.
Sign on: tinyurl.com/ReleaseChant...
#ReleaseChantalAnicoche
#DefendMindoro
As of today, 292 individuals have signed our call for the urgent release of Chantal Anicoche. As she remains under military custody to date, let us continue our united efforts to free Chantal.
Sign on: tinyurl.com/ReleaseChant...
#ReleaseChantalAnicoche
#DefendMindoro
January 12, 2026 at 10:42 AM
📢 SIGNATORY UPDATE📢
As of today, 292 individuals have signed our call for the urgent release of Chantal Anicoche. As she remains under military custody to date, let us continue our united efforts to free Chantal.
Sign on: tinyurl.com/ReleaseChant...
#ReleaseChantalAnicoche
#DefendMindoro
As of today, 292 individuals have signed our call for the urgent release of Chantal Anicoche. As she remains under military custody to date, let us continue our united efforts to free Chantal.
Sign on: tinyurl.com/ReleaseChant...
#ReleaseChantalAnicoche
#DefendMindoro
📢 SIGNATORY UPDATE📢
On the second day of the campaign for the urgent release of Chantal Anicoche, the signing organizations from around the world reached 120.
Sign on our statement here: tinyurl.com/ReleaseChant...
#ReleaseChantalAnicoche
#DefendMindoro
On the second day of the campaign for the urgent release of Chantal Anicoche, the signing organizations from around the world reached 120.
Sign on our statement here: tinyurl.com/ReleaseChant...
#ReleaseChantalAnicoche
#DefendMindoro
January 11, 2026 at 4:05 AM
📢 SIGNATORY UPDATE📢
On the second day of the campaign for the urgent release of Chantal Anicoche, the signing organizations from around the world reached 120.
Sign on our statement here: tinyurl.com/ReleaseChant...
#ReleaseChantalAnicoche
#DefendMindoro
On the second day of the campaign for the urgent release of Chantal Anicoche, the signing organizations from around the world reached 120.
Sign on our statement here: tinyurl.com/ReleaseChant...
#ReleaseChantalAnicoche
#DefendMindoro
📢 SIGNATORY UPDATE📢
As of today, 72 organizations from around the world are calling for the urgent release of Chantal Anicoches.
Stand with us and sign on our statement here:
tinyurl.com/ReleaseChant...
#ReleaseChantalAnicoche
#JusticeForCabacaoMassacre
#StopTheBombings
#DefendMindoro
As of today, 72 organizations from around the world are calling for the urgent release of Chantal Anicoches.
Stand with us and sign on our statement here:
tinyurl.com/ReleaseChant...
#ReleaseChantalAnicoche
#JusticeForCabacaoMassacre
#StopTheBombings
#DefendMindoro
January 10, 2026 at 2:10 PM
📢 SIGNATORY UPDATE📢
As of today, 72 organizations from around the world are calling for the urgent release of Chantal Anicoches.
Stand with us and sign on our statement here:
tinyurl.com/ReleaseChant...
#ReleaseChantalAnicoche
#JusticeForCabacaoMassacre
#StopTheBombings
#DefendMindoro
As of today, 72 organizations from around the world are calling for the urgent release of Chantal Anicoches.
Stand with us and sign on our statement here:
tinyurl.com/ReleaseChant...
#ReleaseChantalAnicoche
#JusticeForCabacaoMassacre
#StopTheBombings
#DefendMindoro
📢SIGN-ON 📢
We call on everyone to stand with us and sign our statement for the urgent release of Chantal Anicoche, a Filipina community leader in the U.S., who went missing after indiscriminate bombings in Mindoro on January 1, and is currently in military custody.
Read and sign: lnkd.in/gqabGs8f
We call on everyone to stand with us and sign our statement for the urgent release of Chantal Anicoche, a Filipina community leader in the U.S., who went missing after indiscriminate bombings in Mindoro on January 1, and is currently in military custody.
Read and sign: lnkd.in/gqabGs8f
January 9, 2026 at 11:46 AM
📢SIGN-ON 📢
We call on everyone to stand with us and sign our statement for the urgent release of Chantal Anicoche, a Filipina community leader in the U.S., who went missing after indiscriminate bombings in Mindoro on January 1, and is currently in military custody.
Read and sign: lnkd.in/gqabGs8f
We call on everyone to stand with us and sign our statement for the urgent release of Chantal Anicoche, a Filipina community leader in the U.S., who went missing after indiscriminate bombings in Mindoro on January 1, and is currently in military custody.
Read and sign: lnkd.in/gqabGs8f
"Withdrawing from initiatives like the UN Democracy Fund will also further weaken critical development finance, which funds the work of environmental and other human rights defenders not just in Asia and the Pacific, but the entire world."
Full statement: apned.net/us-withdrawa...
#APNED
Full statement: apned.net/us-withdrawa...
#APNED
January 9, 2026 at 10:07 AM
"Withdrawing from initiatives like the UN Democracy Fund will also further weaken critical development finance, which funds the work of environmental and other human rights defenders not just in Asia and the Pacific, but the entire world."
Full statement: apned.net/us-withdrawa...
#APNED
Full statement: apned.net/us-withdrawa...
#APNED
Read our newly released 2025 Q4 newsletter! 📰 ✨
Read the newsletter in your inbox, or on the site at
apned.net/apned-2025-q...
#APNED #DefendEnviDefenders
Read the newsletter in your inbox, or on the site at
apned.net/apned-2025-q...
#APNED #DefendEnviDefenders
December 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Read our newly released 2025 Q4 newsletter! 📰 ✨
Read the newsletter in your inbox, or on the site at
apned.net/apned-2025-q...
#APNED #DefendEnviDefenders
Read the newsletter in your inbox, or on the site at
apned.net/apned-2025-q...
#APNED #DefendEnviDefenders
As the year comes to a close, we give thanks for hard-won victories in climate justice and the protection of EHRDs across our region. 🌏
This year was not easy as our communities faced disasters, and attacks on defenders continued--yet we resisted and pushed forward together.
This year was not easy as our communities faced disasters, and attacks on defenders continued--yet we resisted and pushed forward together.
December 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
As the year comes to a close, we give thanks for hard-won victories in climate justice and the protection of EHRDs across our region. 🌏
This year was not easy as our communities faced disasters, and attacks on defenders continued--yet we resisted and pushed forward together.
This year was not easy as our communities faced disasters, and attacks on defenders continued--yet we resisted and pushed forward together.
"State forces are involved or are the primary perpetrators in around half of the recorded killings in the region, according to Global Witness’s latest report on killings of land and environmental defenders."
Read full: apned.net/ihrd-stateme...
#DefendEnviDefenders
Read full: apned.net/ihrd-stateme...
#DefendEnviDefenders
December 12, 2025 at 7:55 AM
"State forces are involved or are the primary perpetrators in around half of the recorded killings in the region, according to Global Witness’s latest report on killings of land and environmental defenders."
Read full: apned.net/ihrd-stateme...
#DefendEnviDefenders
Read full: apned.net/ihrd-stateme...
#DefendEnviDefenders
It’s a wrap for our participation at #COP30!
From November 10 to 21, APNED ensured that the voices of environmental defenders were genuinely recognized through crucial conversations and solidarity with fellow organizations.
#DefendTheDefenders #APNED #ClimateJustice #COP30
From November 10 to 21, APNED ensured that the voices of environmental defenders were genuinely recognized through crucial conversations and solidarity with fellow organizations.
#DefendTheDefenders #APNED #ClimateJustice #COP30
December 4, 2025 at 7:44 AM
It’s a wrap for our participation at #COP30!
From November 10 to 21, APNED ensured that the voices of environmental defenders were genuinely recognized through crucial conversations and solidarity with fellow organizations.
#DefendTheDefenders #APNED #ClimateJustice #COP30
From November 10 to 21, APNED ensured that the voices of environmental defenders were genuinely recognized through crucial conversations and solidarity with fellow organizations.
#DefendTheDefenders #APNED #ClimateJustice #COP30
"While the inclusion of EHRDs in the development of policies is a welcome development, we cannot expect meaningful inclusion if EHRDs must still continue their work under adverse conditions of threats to their lives and freedoms."
Read: apned.net/cop3-statetm...
#COP30 #DefendEnviDefenders
Read: apned.net/cop3-statetm...
#COP30 #DefendEnviDefenders
November 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"While the inclusion of EHRDs in the development of policies is a welcome development, we cannot expect meaningful inclusion if EHRDs must still continue their work under adverse conditions of threats to their lives and freedoms."
Read: apned.net/cop3-statetm...
#COP30 #DefendEnviDefenders
Read: apned.net/cop3-statetm...
#COP30 #DefendEnviDefenders
"For APNED, climate justice means, in part, the eradication of these threats to defenders."
Full Global Day of Action statement here: lnkd.in/gzMC_jZM
hashtag#DefendTheDefenders hashtag#GlobalDayofAction hashtag#ClimateJusticeNow
Full Global Day of Action statement here: lnkd.in/gzMC_jZM
hashtag#DefendTheDefenders hashtag#GlobalDayofAction hashtag#ClimateJusticeNow
November 16, 2025 at 6:33 AM
"For APNED, climate justice means, in part, the eradication of these threats to defenders."
Full Global Day of Action statement here: lnkd.in/gzMC_jZM
hashtag#DefendTheDefenders hashtag#GlobalDayofAction hashtag#ClimateJusticeNow
Full Global Day of Action statement here: lnkd.in/gzMC_jZM
hashtag#DefendTheDefenders hashtag#GlobalDayofAction hashtag#ClimateJusticeNow
"States wield their power not against those who destroy the environment, but against those who aim to preserve and protect the land, the ecosystems that inhabit it, and the ways of life that are intertwined within it."
Full statement here: apned.net/apned-statem...
#DefendEnviDefenders
Full statement here: apned.net/apned-statem...
#DefendEnviDefenders
November 11, 2025 at 10:36 AM
"States wield their power not against those who destroy the environment, but against those who aim to preserve and protect the land, the ecosystems that inhabit it, and the ways of life that are intertwined within it."
Full statement here: apned.net/apned-statem...
#DefendEnviDefenders
Full statement here: apned.net/apned-statem...
#DefendEnviDefenders
Join us this November 11 for a powerful storytelling event — “Protecting Land, Indigenous, and Environmental Defenders for Climate Justice.”
🕓 14:45 – 16:15
📍 Ground floor of the People’s COP Venue, Belém
Co-organized by:
ALLIED
APNED
#COP30 #APNED #ALLIED #DefendTheDefenders
🕓 14:45 – 16:15
📍 Ground floor of the People’s COP Venue, Belém
Co-organized by:
ALLIED
APNED
#COP30 #APNED #ALLIED #DefendTheDefenders
November 9, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Join us this November 11 for a powerful storytelling event — “Protecting Land, Indigenous, and Environmental Defenders for Climate Justice.”
🕓 14:45 – 16:15
📍 Ground floor of the People’s COP Venue, Belém
Co-organized by:
ALLIED
APNED
#COP30 #APNED #ALLIED #DefendTheDefenders
🕓 14:45 – 16:15
📍 Ground floor of the People’s COP Venue, Belém
Co-organized by:
ALLIED
APNED
#COP30 #APNED #ALLIED #DefendTheDefenders
LOOK: On October 27 to 29, the Asia Pacific Network of Environmental Defenders (APNED) co-organized the 4th Asia Environmental Human Rights Defenders Forum themed "Conservation, Biodiversity and Human Rights" in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
#DefendTheDefenders #AEHRD #APNED
#DefendTheDefenders #AEHRD #APNED
November 8, 2025 at 11:46 AM
LOOK: On October 27 to 29, the Asia Pacific Network of Environmental Defenders (APNED) co-organized the 4th Asia Environmental Human Rights Defenders Forum themed "Conservation, Biodiversity and Human Rights" in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
#DefendTheDefenders #AEHRD #APNED
#DefendTheDefenders #AEHRD #APNED
Due to changes in some of APNED's activities for COP30, we reuploaded our updated schedule. |
Join us in bringing civil society's fight for climate justice and EHRD rights protection at Belem!
Full details at apned.net/cop30-apned-...
Stay tuned for more updates!
#DefendTheDefenders #COP30
Join us in bringing civil society's fight for climate justice and EHRD rights protection at Belem!
Full details at apned.net/cop30-apned-...
Stay tuned for more updates!
#DefendTheDefenders #COP30
November 8, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Due to changes in some of APNED's activities for COP30, we reuploaded our updated schedule. |
Join us in bringing civil society's fight for climate justice and EHRD rights protection at Belem!
Full details at apned.net/cop30-apned-...
Stay tuned for more updates!
#DefendTheDefenders #COP30
Join us in bringing civil society's fight for climate justice and EHRD rights protection at Belem!
Full details at apned.net/cop30-apned-...
Stay tuned for more updates!
#DefendTheDefenders #COP30
APNED goes to COP30! 🌏✊
As the fight to protect and recognize the rights of our environmental defenders continues, APNED heads to COP30 in Belém, Brazil, to demand our advocacies.
Check our website post for full details: apned.net/cop30-apned-...
#APNED #DefendTheDefenders #COP30 #Brazil
As the fight to protect and recognize the rights of our environmental defenders continues, APNED heads to COP30 in Belém, Brazil, to demand our advocacies.
Check our website post for full details: apned.net/cop30-apned-...
#APNED #DefendTheDefenders #COP30 #Brazil
November 6, 2025 at 7:33 AM
APNED goes to COP30! 🌏✊
As the fight to protect and recognize the rights of our environmental defenders continues, APNED heads to COP30 in Belém, Brazil, to demand our advocacies.
Check our website post for full details: apned.net/cop30-apned-...
#APNED #DefendTheDefenders #COP30 #Brazil
As the fight to protect and recognize the rights of our environmental defenders continues, APNED heads to COP30 in Belém, Brazil, to demand our advocacies.
Check our website post for full details: apned.net/cop30-apned-...
#APNED #DefendTheDefenders #COP30 #Brazil
"The omission of EHRDs from the final declaration reflects a continued lack of recognition of their worsening situation."
Read our full statement on the exclusion of defenders' recognition and protection in ASEAN's new environmental declaration here: apned.net/apned-statem...
#EHRDInclusionNow
Read our full statement on the exclusion of defenders' recognition and protection in ASEAN's new environmental declaration here: apned.net/apned-statem...
#EHRDInclusionNow
October 30, 2025 at 2:19 AM
"The omission of EHRDs from the final declaration reflects a continued lack of recognition of their worsening situation."
Read our full statement on the exclusion of defenders' recognition and protection in ASEAN's new environmental declaration here: apned.net/apned-statem...
#EHRDInclusionNow
Read our full statement on the exclusion of defenders' recognition and protection in ASEAN's new environmental declaration here: apned.net/apned-statem...
#EHRDInclusionNow
APNED is grateful for the 178 signatories in our call for the Adoption of the ASEAN Peoples' Declaration for Environmental Rights.
More than this petition, APNED, together with civil society groups, remains steadfast in calling for the adoption of this declaration.
More than this petition, APNED, together with civil society groups, remains steadfast in calling for the adoption of this declaration.
October 21, 2025 at 10:03 AM
APNED is grateful for the 178 signatories in our call for the Adoption of the ASEAN Peoples' Declaration for Environmental Rights.
More than this petition, APNED, together with civil society groups, remains steadfast in calling for the adoption of this declaration.
More than this petition, APNED, together with civil society groups, remains steadfast in calling for the adoption of this declaration.
"Protests arise from demands against government corruption and repression amid ever-deepening political and economic crises."
Read APNED's statement on growing Asian protests here: lnkd.in/gZCa-Wty
#DefendDemocracy #DefendTheDefenders
Read APNED's statement on growing Asian protests here: lnkd.in/gZCa-Wty
#DefendDemocracy #DefendTheDefenders
September 26, 2025 at 3:34 AM
"Protests arise from demands against government corruption and repression amid ever-deepening political and economic crises."
Read APNED's statement on growing Asian protests here: lnkd.in/gZCa-Wty
#DefendDemocracy #DefendTheDefenders
Read APNED's statement on growing Asian protests here: lnkd.in/gZCa-Wty
#DefendDemocracy #DefendTheDefenders
Sign on to support the ASEAN People’s Declaration on Environmental Rights!
You may sign through this link: lnkd.in/gMvXE4n2
Access the draft of the ASEAN People’s Declaration here: lnkd.in/gSPCm8Mw
#DefendTheDefenders #APNED #PeoplesDeclarationOnEnvironmentalRights
You may sign through this link: lnkd.in/gMvXE4n2
Access the draft of the ASEAN People’s Declaration here: lnkd.in/gSPCm8Mw
#DefendTheDefenders #APNED #PeoplesDeclarationOnEnvironmentalRights
September 26, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Sign on to support the ASEAN People’s Declaration on Environmental Rights!
You may sign through this link: lnkd.in/gMvXE4n2
Access the draft of the ASEAN People’s Declaration here: lnkd.in/gSPCm8Mw
#DefendTheDefenders #APNED #PeoplesDeclarationOnEnvironmentalRights
You may sign through this link: lnkd.in/gMvXE4n2
Access the draft of the ASEAN People’s Declaration here: lnkd.in/gSPCm8Mw
#DefendTheDefenders #APNED #PeoplesDeclarationOnEnvironmentalRights
APNED's Criminalization of Environmental Defenders Project (CRIMED Project), supported by the 4EU+ initiative, aims to analyze the extent and forms of criminalization experienced by EHRDs so that better legal protection and mechanisms can be formed.
Answer our survey: tinyurl.com/apned-crimed...
Answer our survey: tinyurl.com/apned-crimed...
September 17, 2025 at 10:19 AM
APNED's Criminalization of Environmental Defenders Project (CRIMED Project), supported by the 4EU+ initiative, aims to analyze the extent and forms of criminalization experienced by EHRDs so that better legal protection and mechanisms can be formed.
Answer our survey: tinyurl.com/apned-crimed...
Answer our survey: tinyurl.com/apned-crimed...
"Protests, especially those at the scale of what is happening in Indonesia, do not happen just because. They are manifestations of widespread outrage and willingness to act against oppression and injustice."
Read our statement here: apned.net/apned-indone...
Read our statement here: apned.net/apned-indone...
September 10, 2025 at 4:01 AM
"Protests, especially those at the scale of what is happening in Indonesia, do not happen just because. They are manifestations of widespread outrage and willingness to act against oppression and injustice."
Read our statement here: apned.net/apned-indone...
Read our statement here: apned.net/apned-indone...
"States and multi-state entities must become willing and able to prosecute perpetrators of disappearances, who are usually state actors or agents of corporations that are closely linked with government actors as well. "
Read full statement here: apned.net/apned-intern...
Read full statement here: apned.net/apned-intern...
August 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
"States and multi-state entities must become willing and able to prosecute perpetrators of disappearances, who are usually state actors or agents of corporations that are closely linked with government actors as well. "
Read full statement here: apned.net/apned-intern...
Read full statement here: apned.net/apned-intern...
Read APNED's 2025 Q2 Newsletter!
Read stories of continuous solidarity, support, and strength from civil society groups.
Read here: apned.net/apned-q2-new...
#APNED #DefendTheDefenders
Read stories of continuous solidarity, support, and strength from civil society groups.
Read here: apned.net/apned-q2-new...
#APNED #DefendTheDefenders
August 11, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Read APNED's 2025 Q2 Newsletter!
Read stories of continuous solidarity, support, and strength from civil society groups.
Read here: apned.net/apned-q2-new...
#APNED #DefendTheDefenders
Read stories of continuous solidarity, support, and strength from civil society groups.
Read here: apned.net/apned-q2-new...
#APNED #DefendTheDefenders