This reporting draws on an increasing body of research and experts who are calling for a greater recognition of the link between gender equality and environmental protection, detailing experiences indigenous women in the Amazon face. This report also draws from IUCN’s study on gender-based violence and environment links.
News Article
Amazon ‘women warriors’ show gender equality, forest conservation go hand in hand
- 2020
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Author:
- Rosamaria Loures and Sarah Sax
Organization:
- Mongabay
Citation:
- Loures, R. and Sax, S. (2020). 'Amazon ‘women warriors’ show gender equality, forest conservation go hand in hand' (21 August 2020). Mongabay. Available at: https://news.mongabay.com/2020/08/amazon-women-warriors-show-gender-equality-forest-conservation-go-hand-in-hand/
Synopsis
Classifications
- Advancing Women's Participation and Leadership, Community, Networks, Women's Associations and Cooperatives
- Addressing Gender-Based Violence
- Accessing and Controlling Natural Resources, Decision Making, Land and Resource Rights, Protecting Defenders
- Adaptation and Resilience, Climate Change, Climate-Related Conflict, Deforestation and Degradation, Emissions Reduction, Indigenous Women, Mitigation, Social Inclusion and Intersectionality, Women Environmental Human Rights Defenders
- Commodities, Forests, Illegal Logging, Logging
- Brazil, Global, Latin America and the Caribbean
- External
- News Article
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