Harassment of Environmental Defenders in Europe and Latin America

What is the harassment and what is the border/relationship between the harassment and violence? Definition of environmental defenders To give a definition of the environmental defenders it is needed to give the definition of the human rights defenders first of all: Human rights defenders The Declaration on Human Rights Defenders does not give explicitly the definition of defenders, but its Article. [...] The defenders’ monitoring, reporting dissemination, and education activities are an essential contribution to the observance of human rights, as they seek to combat impunity."(§21) "The IACHR has emphasized that the work of human rights defenders is fundamental for the universal implementation of human rights, and for the full existence of democracy and the rule of law. [...] Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders on his mission to Mexico, A/HRC/37/51/Add.2, from 12 February 201829 on the subject of Criminalization of human rights work says the following (§22): "The activities of human rights defenders [...] have been criminalized through the deliberate misuse of criminal legislation and the manipulation of the punitive powers of th. [...] The effects [of the obligations erga omnes to respect and enforce respect for standards of protection, which is the responsibility of the States Parties to the Convention,] extend well beyond the relationship between the agents of a State and the persons subject to its jurisdiction; those effects are also manifest in the positive obligation that the State has to adopt the necessary measures to ens. [...] As well, the internal file from the criminal proceeding provides many indications to suggest a cover up of the responsibility of officials in the murder of Blanca Jeannette Kawas-Fernández, which were not seriously investigated by the Honduran justice authorities." The cited statement of the Court shows the implication of the States agents in the violence against the defenders.