The Red Cedar Advocacy Centre defends climate defenders in Canada, from pipeline opponents to citizens engaging in civil disobedience.

Alfred Brownell has pioneered legal strategies to protect communities, environmental and climate defenders, and natural resources.

Environmental activist Berta Cáceres won the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2015 for successfully halting the Agua Zarca project, a massive hydropower development along the Gualcarque River in her nat...

Injunctions are being used to stop and silence larger groups of protestors near public or fossil fuel infrastructure, especially in the United Kingdom.

Exclusive: ‘Deep-rooted injustices’ affect billions of people due to location of wells, pipelines and other infrastructure

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CIVICUS discusses African climate litigation efforts with Liberian environmental rights activist, lawyer and law professor Alfred Lahai Brownell, president of Global Climate Legal Defence and co-found...

A landmark anti-SLAPP case underway in the EU could result in a European court verdict declaring Energy Transfer’s suit against Greenpeace legal harassment even as the company seeks to collect a $666 ...

Over 40 organisations across fifteen European countries are urging their governments to make the EU “anti-SLAPP” directive into national law. 

Global Climate Legal Defense is hosting a series of webinars to help educate the broader climate movement about the rising threat from SLAPPs, and how to prepare, prevent, and fight back.

But experts say these “abusive” lawsuits, which are designed to demoralize and drain resources from activists, should be fought, not feared.

Research shows UK police arrest environmental and climate protesters at three times the average global rate