Women in Resistance
When forests are destroyed, women in forest-dependent communities are hit hard: Their living conditions are particularly precarious; and providing food, medicine, materials and clean water becomes even harder. The traditional knowledge and wisdom that women pass down from generation to generation are also at risk. That is why women are often on the frontlines of the resistance to forest destruction.
Publications
20 July 2026
WRM is launching a new booklet for communities and activists to alert on the threats that carbon projects pose to their territories and to their ways of life. The booklet presents a collection of eleven alerts that illustrate why these projects create conflicts and jeopardise peoples’ food sovereignty and autonomy. It also highlights the actions taken by communities to stop the expansion of these projects.
Bulletin articles
7 April 2026
Wars and militarization are nothing new, especially in the Global South. But they have been increasingly normalized by imperialist governments, with the US at the forefront. WRM expresses its solidarity with the peoples who resist this violence characteristic of patriarchy and capitalism.
Articles
7 March 2026
We stand with the women fighting against the capitalist takeover of their lands, in defense of life and dignity!
Action alerts
22 December 2025
Statement of condemnation regarding violations committed by BR Arbo Gestão Florestal and its REDD+ Mejuruá project in the state of Amazonas, Brazil
Bulletin articles
15 December 2025
More than 50 organizations, movements and communities from around the world have come together to endorse the Declaration of Women Against REDD and Carbon Markets.
Declarations
15 December 2025
Action alerts
31 October 2025
Indigenous, peasant, and Afro-descendant women from different Latin American countries are calling on organizations and social movements around the world to sign on to this declaration rejecting carbon market projects in their territories.
Bulletin articles
15 October 2025
Whether they are in Brazil, amidst eucalyptus plantations, or in Thailand, surrounded by oil palm plantations, women suffer specific impacts from these monocultures. Women are on the frontlines of the resistance to these projects, which exploit and devastate the land in pursuit of profit. This is what two peasant activists fighting to defend the land – one from Brazil and one from Thailand – tell us.
Bulletin articles
15 October 2025
Bulletin articles
23 April 2025
Across the global South, communities that oppose corporate control of their territories face not only corporate violence but also tear gas, batons and state repression. Challenging the expedient misinterpretation of “all land belongs to the State” that governments use to protect corporate interests, communities stand strong in the struggle to reclaim their ancestral lands “because it is a sacred place; it is a place that gives meaning to our existence.”
Articles
2 April 2025
On March 25, the palm oil company Socapalm, a subsidiary of the multinational Socfin-Bolloré, carried out a violent operation with security forces against a rural community that is demanding the return of its lands, in Apouh A Ngog village, in the Litoral Region of Cameroon. In an open letter, more than 50 organizations from different countries demanded that the country's authorities investigate and stop these atrocities and find an immediate solution in favour of the community.