The European Parliament, on Wednesday 19 May, easily adopted (518 votes in favour, 97 against and 77 abstentions) an own-initiative report by Soraya Rodríguez Ramos (Renew Europe, Spain) calling on the European Union to strongly support environmental rights defenders and their legal representatives, and to condemn all attacks against these activists.
Noting that environmental defenders face abuse, intimidation, violence and murder in many remote rural areas, MEPs call on the EU to make...