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Land, Environment And Human Rights Defenders

EDM number 1012 in 2016-17, proposed by Caroline Lucas on 02/03/2017.
Categorised under the topics of Crimes of violence, Death, Environmental protection, Human rights, International politics and government and Land law.

That this House notes that it has been one year since the murder of Goldman Environmental Prize-winner Berta Cáceres; further notes the ongoing persecution and killing of environmental, land and human rights defenders across the world; takes note of the 2016 Global Witness report, On Dangerous Ground, which found that there has been 1,176 documented killings of land and environmental defenders globally since 2002; expresses alarm at the killing of nearly 100 environmental activists in the Philippines since 2010, including Mia Manuelita Cumba Masacariñas-Green on 15 February 2017; further expresses alarm at the killing of over 120 environmental activists in Honduras since 2010, including Berta Cáceres, who had gained international recognition for her decade-long opposition to the Agua Zarca hydroelectric dam on her community's land; calls on the Government to make public statements at the Ministerial and Ambassadorial levels recognising the vital and legitimate role of human rights defenders in states where their work is routinely stigmatised; and further calls on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, through its diplomatic activities, to support the rights of local communities to say no to extractive projects on their land, to provide international recognition and protection to environmental, land and human rights defenders and to work to resolve the underlying causes of violence against such defenders by tackling the corruption and illegalities that blight the natural resource sectors.

This motion has been signed by a total of 30 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Caroline Lucas02/03/2017Brighton, PavilionGreenProposed
Liz Saville Roberts02/03/2017Dwyfor MeirionnyddPlaid CymruSeconded
Margaret Ferrier02/03/2017Rutherglen and Hamilton WestScottish National PartySeconded
Roger Godsiff02/03/2017Birmingham, Hall GreenLabourSeconded
Michael Weir06/03/2017AngusScottish National PartySeconded
Margaret Ritchie06/03/2017South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
Alan Meale06/03/2017MansfieldLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins06/03/2017Luton NorthLabourSigned
Jim Shannon06/03/2017StrangfordDUPSigned
Natalie McGarry06/03/2017Glasgow EastScottish National PartySigned
David Simpson07/03/2017Upper BannDUPSigned
Jim Cunningham07/03/2017Coventry SouthLabourSigned
Mark Durkan07/03/2017FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Chris Stephens07/03/2017Glasgow South WestScottish National PartySigned
Ronnie Campbell07/03/2017Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Paul Monaghan08/03/2017Caithness, Sutherland and Easter RossScottish National PartySigned
Alasdair McDonnell08/03/2017Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Stephen Gethins20/03/2017North East FifeScottish National PartySigned
Alex Salmond20/03/2017Signed
Angus MacNeil20/03/2017Na h-Eileanan an IarScottish National PartySigned
Hannah Bardell20/03/2017LivingstonScottish National PartySigned
Phil Boswell20/03/2017Coatbridge, Chryston and BellshillScottish National PartySigned
Roger Mullin20/03/2017Kirkcaldy and CowdenbeathScottish National PartySigned
Alan Brown20/03/2017Kilmarnock and LoudounScottish National PartySigned
Chris Law21/03/2017Dundee WestScottish National PartySigned
Drew Hendry22/03/2017Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and StrathspeyScottish National PartySigned
Tommy Sheppard22/03/2017Edinburgh EastScottish National PartySigned
Owen Thompson22/03/2017MidlothianScottish National PartySigned
John Nicolson24/03/2017East DunbartonshireScottish National PartySigned
Rachael Maskell30/03/2017York CentralLabour/Co-operativeSigned

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