Special
Bulletin Nº 152-
March 2010 (complete
version)
Doing
honour once again to Woman’s Day, thousands of peasant, working
and unemployed women are on the march in Brazil. They are marching
to express their rejection of the criminalization of social movements,
against violence falling on women, against agribusiness and monoculture
eucalyptus and sugarcane plantations. They are also marching
in defence of food and energy sovereignty and of public investment
in peasant farming. All
over the world there are women who are becoming aware, getting organized,
making demands and becoming empowered.This bulletin is from them
and for them.
Special
Bulletin Nº
140 - March 2009 (complete
version)
Communities in the South
are being affected by the spread of monoculture tree plantations
and women are the most impacted by them. Over the past months, WRM
and Friends of the Earth International organized jointly three workshops
with local women: one in Asia (Papua New Guinea), one in Africa
(Nigeria) and one in Latin America (Brazil). The main reason for
choosing cases in those countries was that all had something in
common: the direct or indirect involvement of the European Union
in the spread of such plantations.
Special
Bulletin Nº
79 - February 2004 (complete
version)
This edition
of the WRM bulletin is entirely focused on the issue of women and
forests, coinciding with the near celebration of International Women's
Day on March 8, on which day 129 women died during a textile workers'
struggle in the United States in 1909. The aim of this bulletin
is to share information on both the differentiated impacts that
women suffer in relation to forest loss and degradation and on the
special role that women play regarding wise and equitable forest
use. In this way we hope to contribute to raise awareness on the
gender issue in relation to forests and to assist in its incorporation
to both forest and women activists' agendas. We would like to express
our most sincere thanks to the many people –both women and
men- that contributed to this bulletin, while at the same time paying
homage to all the uncountable and invisible women that are fighting
throughout the tropics an unequal battle to protect the forests
that are their homes and means of livelihood.
