{"id":19502,"date":"2025-09-19T04:18:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T04:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/?p=19502"},"modified":"2025-09-19T04:18:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T04:18:31","slug":"witness-1-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/publication\/19502\/witness-1-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Witness 1.25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"704\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-southasia-stateless\/2025\/09\/356276dd-witnessgpsa-thumbnail.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-southasia-stateless\/2025\/09\/356276dd-witnessgpsa-thumbnail.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-southasia-stateless\/2025\/09\/356276dd-witnessgpsa-thumbnail-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-southasia-stateless\/2025\/09\/356276dd-witnessgpsa-thumbnail-768x528.png 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-southasia-stateless\/2025\/09\/356276dd-witnessgpsa-thumbnail-495x340.png 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p>Across South Asia, the fight against plastic pollution is defining 2025. With the Global Plastics Treaty on the horizon, this is a once-in-a-generation chance to end plastic pollution at its source. Greenpeace South Asia is amplifying the voices calling for bans on single-use plastics and real accountability from corporations\u2014while standing firm against threats to civil society, from greenwashing to SLAPP suits aimed at silencing dissent. In this edition of Witness, explore how communities are demanding systemic change to protect oceans, livelihoods, and the right to fight for a livable future.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-southasia-stateless\/2025\/09\/b40f0a50-witnessgpsa_web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read Here<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025 began with reminders that the climate crisis is not distant\u2014it is here, and deeply personal. Yet in the face of polluted skies, rising heat, and erratic rains, people are&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":19505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[34],"p4-page-type":[15],"class_list":["post-19502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate","tag-witness","p4-page-type-publication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19502"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19509,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19502\/revisions\/19509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19502"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=19502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}