Abstract
On October 12, Indigenous Peoples' Day, the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University conferred the joint Elisabeth Haub Awards for Environmental Law and Diplomacy, in memoriam, upon all environmental defenders who have lost their lives defending their land and the environment from destructive industries. According to Global Witness, the highest number of killings of environmental defenders on record occurred in 2019.1 The award ceremony was preceded by a panel discussion featuring environmental advocates from Colombia and the Philippines (two countries which together account for half of such deaths that were recorded in that year) and from the US, where environmental activism is increasingly being criminalised. The next presentation was by Krystal Two Bulls, an Oglala Lakota and Northern Cheyenne organiser from Lame Deer, Montana, who led the global solidarity movement calling for banks and financial institutions to divest from the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock in 2016.
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