Women, Mining and Human Rights: Beyond The Challenge
LAMMP is pleased to announce an International Conference entitled “Women, Mining and Human Rights: Beyond the Challenge” to be held in Guatemala between 14 and 17 March 2010. The Conference will bring together women activists and representatives from partner organisations throughout Latin America as well as experts in the field of human rights, gender mainstreaming, sustainable development and corporate social responsibility.
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European Speakers Tour
Network of Rural and Indigenous Women Environmental Defenders
LAMMP and the Union of Latin American Women (ULAM) – the regional network of women defenders – hosted the first European Speakers’ Tour (October 8 – 16, 2009).
The Tour provided a forum for a number of rural and indigenous women activists from Latin America to voice their concerns and share their experiences with the European public and members of parliament.
Read our European Tour Report here.
European Tour’s Aims
- help reduce women activist’s vulnerability by raising awareness and mobilizing international support for their campaigns for corporate social responsibility and environmental justice;
- lobby European governments and civil society to ensure a deeper, shared understanding of the extent and impact of persecution faced by women activists as well as specific safety issues faced by women in the tour;
- raise the profile and reduce the invisibility of women activists struggle against irresponsible mining, and facilitate effective alliances and links between Latin American women activists and European organisations;
- expose the range of corporate and state practices that currently have a detrimental impact on Latin American women activists, their families and communities.
what’s on
Guatemala Conference Statement
05/20/2010 • Reaffirming our commitments as peasant, indigenous and non-indigenous peoples, our vision is one of respect for Mother Earth because for us she is Sacred and is part of our Spiritual Trinity: Nature, Creator-Shaper and Human Being;
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European Speakers Tour
11/09/2009 • LAMMP and the Union of Latin American Women (ULAM) hosted the first European Speakers’ Tour. The Tour provided a forum...Read More
International Day of the Indigenous Woman
09/05/2009 • 5 September is the International day of the indigenous women, in which the cruel death of Bartolina Sissa is commemorated...Read More