A report released by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre has put India and Brazil as among the most dangerous places in the world for human rights and labor activists.
As per the report, Brazil topped the list with recorded 63 attacks against activists in 2022, followed by India with 54 attacks and Mexico with 44 attacks.
Other countries included are Cambodia, the Philippines, and Honduras.

the report has also mentioned more than 550 attacks recorded in 2022 of which 75 % were people who were protesting to protect land, climate, and environmental rights while one- fifth attacks were against indigenous activists.

The report also mentioned Mining as the most dangerous industry with 30 percent of attacks or about 165, further adding that though it was difficult to identify the perpetrators of the attacks, 235 incidents or about 43 percent of cases were linked to the multinational company or their subsidiaries.

The report mentioned companies like India’s JSW Steel, UAE’s Otterlo Business Corp, French oil company TotalEnergies, Inversiones los Pinares, and Cambodia’s gaming company NagaWorld.

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