En todo el mundo, quienes defienden el medio ambiente y los derechos humanos que de él dependen enfrentan todo tipo de obstáculos, desafíos y amenazas. Superando la adversidad, han estado trabajando para cambiar la vida de muchos.
At the south of Mexico in 'Sierra Norte', Oaxaca, eight Zapoteca communities come together to a joint community organization working on the conservation of 13,000 hectares of forest. Their conservation strategy is based on a sustainable ...
land rights | right to development | right to equality and non-discrimination | right to food | women´s rights
Vandana Shiva was born in Dehradun, India. Her father was a conservator of forests and her mother was a farmer with a love for nature. She is a physicist, ecologist, writer, philosopher of science, science policy advocate and environmental ...
land rights | right to freedom from arbitrary detention | right to freedom of assembly and association | right to freedom of expression and opinion | right to liberty and security of person | rights of indigenous peoples
Kinipan is a small village in Borneo with a population of just under 1,000. In April 2018, the village applied for the recognition of its traditional rights over its forest (hutan adat). The villagers were involved hands-on in charting their ...
land rights | right to environmental information | right to freedom of expression and opinion | right to life | rights of indigenous peoples
Lottie Cunningham Wren is a lawyer from the Miskito indigenous group defending the rights of indigenous peoples in Nicaragua to their land and resources. (...)
land rights | right to environmental information | right to health | right to life | right to participate in environmental decision-making | women´s rights
Over the past years, Nigerian women have mobilized in a social movement promoted at the grassroots level, to protest against transnational oil companies and have demanded them to be part of the solution. (...)
land rights | right to environmental information | right to freedom of expression and opinion | right to health | right to life | right to participate in environmental decision-making | right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation | rights of indigenous peoples
'The lands of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe were reduced to a reservation by the Act of March 2, 1889. The Tribal government maintains jurisdiction on all reservation lands, including all rights-of-way, waterways, watercourses and streams ...
land rights | right to environmental information | right to freedom from arbitrary detention | rights of indigenous peoples
'Members of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation were arrested for protesting the construction of a natural gas pipeline on their ancestral land in northern British Columbia, Canada.' (...)
'Prolitoral is a collective formed by Ecologistas en Acción, the Asociación de Naturalistas del Sureste (ANSE), Amacora and other environmental and legal professionals.' (...)
land rights | right to liberty and security of person | right to life | rights of indigenous peoples
'More than half a decade ago, on 30 April 2015, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) granted precautionary measures (MC 321-12) in favour of the Brörán peoples of Térraba and the Bribri peoples of Salitre. This exceptional ...
