Nearly 600 environmental and land defenders killed or disappeared over the past three years [SOUND]

# United Nations high commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, is calling for greater protection for environmental and land defenders as the world celebrates World Environment Day. Nearly 600 environmental and land defenders have been killed or disappeared over the past three years, or were detained in at least 55 countries. Türk says it’s shocking that people defending the future of children are prosecuted under laws designed to fight terrorism and organised crime: