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.
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.
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.”
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.
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).
Ana Argelia Marcelly García, 72-year-old woman, teacher, cultural manager, mother, grandmother. This is her first-person testimony of her, in which she tells how she also became the guardian of the memory of her daughter, the poet Leyla Quintana, “Amada Libertad”.
The absolute or partial criminalization of abortion in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala puts the lives and freedom of women and all people with the capacity to gestate at risk, helps thousands of girls continue to become mothers and denies the right to interruption of pregnancy that, from the indigenous worldview, has been given for centuries.
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.
What do we allude to with economic violence? Does it have to do, for example, with the lack of access to housing or habitat? Does it have to do with exclusion from the labor market or the fact that I can’t get a job? How does that impact our bodies? How does it impact our day to day, in our relationships, in our ability to support ourselves on a daily basis?
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.