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Indigenous Women at SF Women’s March 2019

Saturday, January 19, 2019 at 10 AM – 2 PM PST 5 days from now · 50–61°F Cloudy Civic Center San Francisco, California 94102 Calling all Indigenous women of the Americas! (Native American and/or Indigenous to the Americas only please) Native American/Indigenous women...

Escalating intimidation of and harassment against indigenous human rights defender

On 31 May 2016, five men sat outside the home of Ms Gloria Ushigua throughout the night, in what appeared to be an act of intimidation against the human rights defender. Gloria Ushigua is an Indigenous human rights defender and has been the target of increasing levels of harassment over the past month, as a result of her peaceful and legitimate work in defence of environmental rights and of her ancestral land. This follows another act of intimidation against her niece on 26 May 2016 and the killing of the human rights defender’s sister-in-law, Anacleta Dahua Cují, on 2 May 2016.

Amazon Women of Ecuador at UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Amazonian Women urge China not to explore oil in Ecuador As part of the 15th Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Land is Life and our allies will alert the UN to denounce the threat on human rights in Indigenous territories due to the oil contracts signed in January...

Protecting the Refuge — Protecting the Future

Humanity has created the illusion that we can continue to thrive on this planet of our own accord, separate from our environment. But it is our own over consumption that accelerated climate change. And it is proving a humbling wake up call for humanity that, in...

Women on the Front Lines Fighting Fracking in the Bakken Oil Shale Formations

There are some crystalline moments in which the challenges we face as a civilization become brutally clear. Moments in which corrupt aspects of American democracy and the fractures in our social, economic and political systems are exposed with unsurpassed clarity....

Meet the Indigenous Leaders, from Navajo Nation and beyond, who took a stand for Indigenous Rights at COP21

Last month I had the honor and privilege of teaming up with the Indigenous Environmental Network at the COP21 climate negotiations in Paris to amplify the Indigenous Rising campaign and the voices and stories of the IEN delegation, which included over 20 Indigenous...

Women of the Amazon Defend Their Homeland Against New Oil Contract on International Women’s Day

In late January 2016, the government of Ecuador signed a controversial contract with Chinese oil company Andes Petroleum, handing over rights to explore and drill for oil deep in the country’s pristine southeastern Amazon Rainforest, known and revered by many as...

Where the Indigenous Women’s Treaty differs from the Paris Accord

By: Cherri Foytlin Last week in Paris a historic document was signed. This instrument carries the weight and responsibility of protecting a threatened world. Dignitaries came from oceans away to gather, bear witness and testify to the undeniable truth that our planet...

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