Join our upcoming webinar Thursday, July 17, 2025.
📅 Date: Thursday, July 17, 2025
🕑 Time: 13:00 UTC (7:00 AM CDMX, 15:00 CET)
⏳ Duration: 1 hour
💻 Audience: Indigenous, Land, and Environmental Defenders (ILEDs); rapid responders; digital security helpdesks; data collectors; civil society organizations; and activists working in land, environmental, and climate justice.
🌐 Language: English and Spanish, with live interpretation available.
Digital threats targeting Indigenous, Land, and Environmental Defenders (ILEDs) are on the rise, posing significant challenges to the defense of land, territories, and climate justice. As defenders increasingly use digital tools in their advocacy, they also face heightened risks of online harassment, surveillance, and cyberattacks. Despite this, such digital attacks are often underreported, undocumented, and poorly understood—creating critical gaps in protection and response mechanisms.
In this webinar, three land defenders and environmental activists from Mexico, Serbia, and Uganda will share their lived experiences and insights into:
- Holistic security practices in their communities and organizations
- Methodologies they’ve developed and implemented to document digital threats
- The challenges and lessons learned from these efforts
Featured Speakers
Mexico: My name is Atahualpa Sofía. I was born and raised in an industrialised area called El Salto, in Jalisco, Mexico, where pollution and the disappearance of wetlands, streams and rivers have accelerated rapidly due to the construction of houses, factories, maquilas and large international companies that discharge their chemicals and poisons into the Santiago River. At the same time, our proximity to the city of Guadalajara has turned us into its backyard, bringing its waste to fill ravines near our homes. Our towns have become sacrifice zones. This struggle has made us the enemy of capital and the state, generating surveillance, harassment, and repression. This context has led us to organise and generate alternatives that allow us to maintain our physical, emotional, and economic integrity.
Serbia: Sofija is an organiser and researcher based between Serbia and the UK. She will be sharing reflections from working with groups and coalitions resisting extractive industries in Serbia and ZBOR, a transnational Balkan platform and process for resource sharing, political education and direct action.
Uganda: Karamoja Rights Advocates Network (KRANET) is a grassroots human rights organization based in the Karamoja sub-region of northeastern Uganda. It promotes human rights, social justice, and environmental protection in one of the country’s most marginalized areas. KRANET works closely with local communities to amplify their voices through legal aid, advocacy, civic engagement, and capacity building—especially around land rights, accountability in extractive industries, gender justice, and the protection of grassroots human rights defenders.
What You’ll Gain
By attending this webinar, you’ll gain:
- Firsthand accounts of holistic security approaches from land and environmental defenders
- Practical methodologies for documenting digital attacks and threats
- A contextual understanding of digital threats in Mexico, Serbia, and Uganda
We’ll also explore future directions, including how to better understand the intersecting forms of violence experienced by women and LGBTQIA+ defenders in land and environmental movements.
Don’t miss this important conversation!
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