RemezclaBeing a land defender in Latin America is extremely dangerous. A recent Front Line Defenders report found that in 2017, more than 300 human rights defenders – 80 percent of which were from Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and the Philippines – were killed. “An analysis of the work done by those killed is instructive: 67 percent were engaged in the defence of land, environmental, and indigenous peoples’ rights and nearly always in the context of mega projects, extractive industry, and big business. In many countries, governments and security forces were, at best, unresponsive to threats and attacks faced by HRDS and, at worst, state security forces were themselves responsible for the killings,” the report stated.