Núcleo Amigos da Terra Brasil (AT Brasil) - member of Friends of the Earth Latin America and the Caribbean (ATALC)

AT Brasil is a Civil Society Organisation, dedicated to the protection of nature and the promotion of environmental justice. Since 1983 it has been a full national member of Friends of the Earth International (FoEI), the world's largest network of grassroots environmental groups, with 75 national groups and more than two million members and supporters. In the last decade AT Brasil has been a member of the Executive Board of Friends of the Earth Latin America and Caribbean (ATALC), regional body. AT Brasil contributes to ATALC's priority work within the Internationalist Solidarity System (ISS), supporting environmental defenders under threat and campaigning to end impunity of big corporations with records of environmental and human rights violation in the region. ATALC's ISS priorities are: 1. Capacity building: Raising awareness and understanding about the systematic persecution of defenders and the potential mechanisms to strengthen the safety and protection of them. 2. Registration, documentation and analysis: Find patterns of threats and violence against environmental defenders to draw wider attention to the systemic nature of persecution and build strategies, both to secure access to justice and to improve the ability to predict and prevent attacks against environmental defenders, targeting the root causes of persecution. 3. Rapid Response Mechanisms: Security measures, emergency assistance and ongoing monitoring and support. 4. Information and engagement: Communicating on cases through national, regional and international mechanisms, with a call to CSOs, social movements and institutions worldwide to engage through concrete actions.