COVID19 and Impacts on Environmental Human Rights Defenders and Environmental Protection in Southeast Asia

This report examines the positive and negative impacts of the decrees, laws and other government policies on environmental rights that were either enacted in response to COVID-19 or passed during the pandemic. This rapid assessment covers the implications of these new rules and laws for Southeast Asian countries’ environmental protection measures and for EHRDs. The eleven Southeast Asian countries included in this assessment are Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Viet Nam.