Category: Land

Celebrating Water Defenders

In Central America communities are being thrust into life and death struggles against powerful interests to ensure clean water and health for future generations.

Yaqui pipeline fighters need immediate relief

In the Indigenous Yaqui territory of the Mexican state of Sonora on the northern border, water defenders who oppose pipelines  have to choose between self-exile or the likely outcome of imprisonment, kidnapping,

The Paths of Justice for Berta

On March 2, 2016, the world suffered the murder of land defender Berta Cáceres. From that moment, those of us who took on the fight for justice pointed out that this act

The defense of the Body-Territory

This Earth Day, four women defenders from four countries came together to reflect on their struggles defending the body-territory. They emphasized that the relationship of women’s bodies with the earth, its natural