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Adivasi women in Rajasthan’s Zawar Mines reclaim their rights

Lakshmi Devi, a Bhil Adivasi woman from Kanpur village in Rajasthan, India, has not been able to harvest a single…

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“They are killing the river”: Q’eqchi’ women defend the sacred Cahabón

Two rivers cross in Guatemala’s municipality of Santa María Cahabón, the ancestral territory of the Q’eqchi’ peoples. To the Q’eqchi’…

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Women in Central Java demand end to mud pollution from geothermal exploration

In November 2016, communities living on the foot of a volcano in Central Java, Indonesia, were surprised to find that…

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The women defending life amid the flames in Bolivia’s Chiquitanía

In 2019, Bolivia experienced one of the largest forest fires in its history with 10 percent of its total forested…

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Protecting the Madre de Dios forest that gives us water

The Madre de Dios rainforest in Peru is one of the most diverse forests on the planet and is also…

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Women restore mangrove forests in the Niger Delta

In the Niger Delta’s Yorla Oil Field, the farming and fishing community of Yaataah have seen their water become increasingly…

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Women in South Africa: Water a fundamental right in the time of COVID-19

Where are the voices of working-class and rural Black women in the larger story about COVID-19 in South Africa? This…

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Yumao women lead resistance against Rositas dam

Every year for the last decade, people from across Bolivia travel to the community of Yumao in the country’s Great…

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