Por Dra. María Luisa Acosta

“Há causas pelas quais vale a pena morrer, mas não valem a pena matar. Nicaragua unida, nunca será derrotada” Danny Ezequiel López Morales, 21 anos, morto por paramilitares no bairro indígena de Sutiaba, em 5 de julho de 2018.

Ao envenenamento do solo e da água pelos pesticidas defendidos pela Ministra Tereza Cristina, corresponde o envenenamento da sociedade pelo obscurantismo pregado pela Ministra Damares Alves e seus colegas do MEC.

«A violência contra o ciclo da água é provavelmente a pior e também a mais invisível forma de violência porque ameaça a vida de todos.» – Vandana Shiva

Maritza Losada moved to Puerto Guadalupe five years ago when her husband found a job with a large biomass energy company that grows sugar cane. She and her husband purchased a lot in the town’s poorest neighborhood, Barrio Nuevo. The district remains today much like it was in 1995 when the government created the housing project for future agro-laborers: no roads, no sewage, no gutters.

By Nadra Rahman 

By Deborah Espinosa and Patrick Gallagher, USAID’s Land Technology Solutions Program

Persistent and pervasive gender inequality is a global development challenge that constrains economic growth, educational opportunities, and health outcomes. It jeopardizes food security and undermines poverty reduction strategies. The world over, some formal and many informal laws and customs operate to hinder women’s empowerment and thus their full potential as agents of economic and social change.

Author: Ahmadou Aly Mbaye

Editor's Note: 

Por  Gisella Meneguelli para Greenme

Improving how we work for – and with – indigenous and local women in their communities

As a human rights organisation, gender justice is a fundamental principle of our work, and we have long been conscious of, and sought to address, the barriers to effective participation in decision-making by women, as well as the other human rights violations they may face on account of their gender.