Justice for many people continues to be an illusion, a chimera, but also something that is built from below and with the soil. This is how women defenders in Central America.
Nigeria: Restoring Mangroves by Fossil Fuel Extraction
We, the women of our community, decided to take action on the matter. With the environmental and gender rights organization, the Lokiaka Community Development Center, we trained 250 women and girls in mangrove restoration and biodiversity management.
Nepal: Indigenous knowledge to mitigate the effects of climate change
The hydroelectric project is a false climate solution, as it is a major source of methane, among other greenhouse gases. It also exposes us to greater vulnerability to the impacts of the climate crisis, such as floods and droughts, making it risky and unreliable.
Paraguay: Qom women protect their lands against monocultures
The conflict we are facing now has to do with a supposed “sustainable development” model that the NGO Fundación Paraguaya is imposing on us. The NGO is planting industrial eucalyptus monocultures in Qom territory as part of the organization’s program to “eliminate poverty.”
Guatemala: Recovery of territorial rights for water conservation
For generations, my people, the Maya Ch’orti’ people, have lived on our territory in Guatemala. But a few years ago, the madness of biofuels landed in our country. Companies began to monopolize water resources and displaced our local communities from our lands and territories with the aim of expanding pinyon monocultures.
Women Are Water Campaign: for gender and climate justice
The “Women are Water” campaign will take place from March 15 to 24 and is led by the Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action (GAGGA).
Download the Guide for Co-construction Reflective Encounters
We share the methodological guide with its toolbox, the product of a process of reflection and collective construction in which women and plural people participated around the justices we want.
Organized women hold the key to economic justice in Guatemala
Feminist economics seeks to reduce the gender gap and the labor and economic inequality experienced by women. It is a comprehensive perspective that recognizes that the systems we inhabit are not set up to meet everyone’s needs. Feminist economics is both a political commitment that questions classical, hegemonic economics and an invitation to rethink domestic, care, productive and reproductive work, which have traditionally fallen to women.
The risks for women land defenders in Honduras
In Honduras, the most emblematic struggles to protect the environment have been and are led by women. Elena Gaitán is the only woman facing charges in her community after they stood up to a hydroelectric plant that was given a concession on the Jilamito River in the department of Atlántida.
Honduran women create a solidarity fabric against extractivism
Betty Vásquez Rivera, an indigenous Lenca feminist, serves as coordinator in Movimiento Ambientalista Santa Barbarense (MAS) de Mujeres por la Vida in Honduras. Her analysis and reflections, which are presented below, focus on the impacts of COVID-19 and hurricanes Eta and Iota, defenders’ struggle against the construction of large-scale projects that are presented as economic and development alternatives, and the Honduran government’s lack of response to recent natural disasters.