UN envoy warns of environmental activist murder ‘epidemic’

Expert on indigenous rights demands consumers boycott 'blood-tainted' products from land grabs amid weak state response, Climate Home reports

The killings of indigenous activists in Honduras signal a growing "epidemic" around the world, a UN envoy has declared.

Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, urged governments to give protection to forest defenders in an interview.