Human Rights Defenders People's Hearing

The Human Rights Defenders People’s Hearing will bring together civil society leaders, grassroots activists, and legal experts to hear first-hand testimonies from human rights defenders on the frontlines and the fencelines of fossil fuel extractors. The hearing will expose systemic failures, including South Africa’s lack of legislative protection for human rights defenders, and the impunity enjoyed by perpetrators of attacks, contamination and destruction of lands, water, local infrastructure and livelihoods.