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02 July 2019
Dolene Miller, Elba Rivera and Francisca Ramirez have spent years defending the territories of the indigenous peoples, farmers and Afro-Nicaraguans. Here are their stories.
HAVANA TIMES – Defending their lands and the environment has cost the lives of many women around the world, especially in…
17 May 2019
Indigenous communities in Nicaragua are facing violence and displacement, but agroecology is helping empower the Miskito people.
What do you do when your access to rivers, sacred sites, and forests, is cut off, especially when your whole identity has grown from a spiritual connection to nature…
06 May 2019
Myrna Cunningham is the first Miskitu woman to study at a university. In 1973, she received a degree in medicine and returned to her home region in the isolated northeast of Nicaragua, where she was born in a small village surrounded by lush forest. Working as a surgeon, she served in more than one…
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25 October 2022
Conversaciones sobre la tierra y el clima
Del 6 al 18 de noviembre, el mundo se reúne en Sharm el-Sheikh, Egipto, para la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático de 2022 (COP27), con el fin de debatir la agenda global sobre el cambio climático. Aunque tenemos la esperanza de…
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Sharing practical strategies for empowering women on collectively-held lands
*Panel will be presented in English and simultaneous interpretation will be available in Spanish and Portuguese.
Ideal for timezones in the Americas, Atlantic, and West Africa regions.
Women around the world live…
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