A research about Berta Cáceres case, done by International Advisory Group of Experts (GAIPE) has been launched on October 31st in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Berta was Consejo Cívico de Organizaciones Populares e Indígenas de Honduras (COPINH) coordinator. She was killed on March 2nd 2016 due to her and COPINH’s struggle in defense of water and life and against the Agua Zarca hydroelectric project. The research "Dam Violence.
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Global Campaign mobilized towards a UN Binding Treaty for Transnational Corporations on Human Rights
The need to confront the Architecture of Impunity
Social organisations and movements, communities affected by the operations of transnational corporations and others fighting for social and environmental justice around the world, will march to Geneva in October 2017 (23rd to 26th).
Hereby we share a number of activities, new materials and media coverages from different countries to commemorate the International Day of Struggle Against Monoculture Tree Plantations 2017.
- Women organizations from several countries from West and Central Africa launched the petition: “Stop all forms of abuse against women in large-scale monoculture tree plantations”.
Indigenous Peoples from Acre in Brazil declare their rejection of REDD policies and their support for the work carried out by the Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI). Feijó, State of Acre, Brazil, September 28th, 2017.
LETTER OF REJECTION AND REQUEST FOR CLARIFICATION
Only available in Portuguese
On occasion of September 21st, International day of Struggle against Tree Plantations, women from several countries from West and Central Africa have taken the initiative to release simultaneously the petition we enclose below.
The petition is an urgent request from women in Africa to stop the suffering and the violent impacts the expansion of industrial oil palm plantations is creating on womens´ lives, that affect women in and outside the African continent: Violence, sexual abuses, rape, harassment, persecution, destruction of their means of livelihoods.
(Available in Spanish and Portuguese)
Declaración internacional frente a la expansión de monocultivos de árboles - Red Latinoamericana contra los Monocultivos de Árboles (Recoma).
On September 21st we celebrate the International Day of Struggle against Tree Monocultures.
Click here to download this declaration in English
Women and the expansion of industrial oil palm plantations