Aluisio Sampaio Dos Santos in Brazil, Nixon Mutis in Colombia, Agudo Quillio in the Philippines, Rahmat Hakiminia in Iran. These are some of the 164 people who lost their lives for defending the environment from ‘menacing industries’ in 2018, said a human rights NGO. Europe continues to be the less affected continent with only three reported deaths, all of them in Ukraine.
