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The Real Free Speech Threat: Meet the UN's First Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders

The Real Free Speech Threat: Meet the UN's First Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders

Update: 2024-01-31
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In June 2022, Michel Forst became the first UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders. In that role he has spent the past year visiting various countries and speaking out about the increasingly onerous laws and aggressive tactics being used against climate protestors. Today he released a statement on the UK, saying he is "extremely worried" about "the increasingly severe crackdowns on environmental defenders in the United Kingdom, including in relation to the exercise of the right to peaceful protest."

In this episode, our France reporter Anna Pujol-Mazzini talks to Forst about his new position, what it means, and what power he has to do something about the creeping crackdown on climate protest.

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The Real Free Speech Threat: Meet the UN's First Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders

The Real Free Speech Threat: Meet the UN's First Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders

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