In the six months since the coronavirus began its global spread, more than 15 million people have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and more than 600,000 have perished. Governments around the world have instituted lockdowns and shut down businesses.
Las mujeres rurales de América Latina y el Caribe enfrentan diversas desigualdades que causan el que éstas presenten altos índices de pobreza, inseguridad alimentaria y nutricional, experimenten un acceso restringido a los recursos productivos y empleo decente, a la protección social y a la comercialización de sus productos.
In this land news update from South Africa we focus on:
It is depressing, discouraging, infuriating – pick your word – to see the scale and scope of abuse and discrimination aimed at women and girls worldwide.
Latin America’s indigenous and Afro-descendant communities are facing not just one pandemic, but three. Women bear the brunt of them all, which threatens communities’ very survival.
From forced displacement to conflict over resources, the coronavirus pandemic has created a “perfect storm” for land rights abuses - and the situation is likely to worsen, researchers and activists warned on Thursday.
Diálogo realizado pela Revista Amazonas sobre as lutas e a resistência de Mulheres do povo Garifuna de Honduras e da Comunidade Negra Creole de Bluefields, Nicarágua. Mediadora: Helena silvestre
Convidadas:
1. Dolene Miller
Reconociendo la importancia de las cuestiones relativas a la tierra para poner fin al hambre y lograr el desarrollo sostenible, los países han convenido en cumplir objetivos ambiciosos en materia de tierras para 2030.
Acknowledging the centrality of land issues to end hunger and achieve sustainable development, countries have agreed to meet ambitious land targets by 2030. Five years into the SDGs, persistent land insecurity, land evictions, threats to land rights defenders and other challenges show that the land promises are not being delivered.
This scoping study analyses gendered impacts of large-scale extractives, hydropower and agribusiness investments that result in communities’ changed access to and control over land, water and other natural resources.
For those of us who have worked in development since quite some time certain stories have become a little too familiar. Whether in Latin America, South East Asia or Sub Saharan Africa, it is women and their special connection to land and water that are greatly impacted when the thirsty mining, hydropower or agribusiness industries move into their communities. The stories tell of loss of access to land and forests, of contamination of the water used for drinking, cooking and bathing; of the much longer and more dangerous journeys to get water and the increased vulnerability to sextortion and gender-based violence.
O programa QUESTÕES AMBIENTAIS NA SOCIEDADE em seu 10º episódio tem a honra e o prazer de convidar a todas e todos para um debate sobre PANDEMIA E POVOS INDÍGENAS: A VISÃO DA MULHER GUARANI NA LUTA COTIDIANA com a Cacique Juliana Kerexu e a Gestora Ambiental Nathalia Sibuya mais comentários de Rennisy Cruz (Bela) e José Roberto Galdino (Ró).
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