Saskia Bricmont

Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Greens/European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA), Saskia Bricmont is deeply committed to human rights, environmental justice, and fair international trade. She is one of the leading figures in the European campaign against the EU-Mercosur trade agreement, denouncing its devastating consequences for tropical forests and Indigenous Peoples. In […]

Adélaïde Charlier

Belgian activist for social and climate justice, Adélaïde Charlier rose to prominence as co-founder and spokesperson of the Youth for Climate movement, which mobilized tens of thousands of young people across Belgium starting in 2019. Inspired by Greta Thunberg and, before her, by Severn Cullis-Suzuki, she embodies a generation determined to pressure governments into taking […]

Jojo Mehta

Co-founder and Executive Director of Stop Ecocide International, Jojo Mehta is one of the leading figures in the global movement to have ecocide recognized as an international crime. A graduate of Oxford and London universities, she has, since 2020, coordinated the panel of legal experts that produced the first independent definition of ecocide, which is […]

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

A former trade unionist turned central figure in Brazilian politics, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva served as President of Brazil from 2003 to 2010, before being re-elected in 2022 amid a deep social, environmental, and institutional crisis. His return to power came with strong commitments to the rights of Indigenous Peoples, but quickly ran up […]

Sydney Possuelo

Sydney Ferreira Possuelo is one of the last great explorers of the twentieth century, and undoubtedly one of the most ethical. Born in 1940 in São Paulo, he discovered his vocation alongside the legendary Villas-Bôas brothers, pioneers of the Xingu Indigenous Park, whom he accompanied in the 1960s. During this period, he formed a deep […]