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Defending Land and Community: Women on the Front Lines of Climate Justice
Saturday, 12 December 2015
By Nathalie Margi
When world leaders attend international conferences like Conference of Parties (COP21) on climate change, they face political pressure and opposition. When women stand up for environmental rights in their communities, they face harassment, violence, and death threats.
Climate change is not just about international agreements between governments – it matters to people's lives and to our very survival.
Tanzania: Maasai women gain access to land - By John Cheburet
Mary Komeiyan would like to grow food for her children. But she has no land. She lives in a village where crops come second in importance to livestock. Cows feed on the small plot of maize near her house. She cannot take action because the animals belong to her husband. Her situation is typical of Maasai women in Tanzania. They have little or no say on how land is used.
India: 2,000 acres of assigned lands grabbed: Report
By: Naresh Sankepally
Date: August 26th 2016
Source: The Hans India
Hyderabad: In an explosive finding the Task Force Committee constituted by the State Government, which probed encroachment of lands, has concluded that thousands of acres of land in and around Hyderabad have been encroached upon with the tacit connivance of certain bigwigs.
In Nicaragua, rural women celebrate Rural Women's Day with a peasant fair in front of government offices
[From OXFAM - GROW CAMPAIGN] Maria Teresa Fernandez, leader of the Coordinator stated that International Day of Rural Women is the only day the world remembers the rural woman, though she brings to the economy, 365 days a year and she is the one that feeds the world.
The botanical garden poised to swallow a Brazilian favela
By: Angela Almeida and John Surico
Date: September 6th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Inside Rio de Janeiro's Horto favela, half-paved roads connect scattered homes, as monkeys comb through the trees above, and water streams through aqueducts, built by slaves centuries before.
Women use folk songs to create awareness on property rights in tribal Kinnaur - By Vishal Gulati
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Farming mega-mergers threaten food security, say campaigners
By: John Vidal
Date: September 26th 2016
Source: The Guardian
Deals would put the majority of seeds, chemicals and GM traits in the hands of three companies, deepening poverty for small-scale farmers