Ensuring Women’s Land Rights in the face of Corporate Capture of Solutions to the Climate & Biodiversity Crises

Start Date: 
Wednesday, March 23, 2022 - 10:00
End Date: 
Wednesday, March 23, 2022 - 12:00
Organizer: 
ESCR-NET, Al-Haq, Minority Rights Group International

 

Registration: 

Register to join CSW NGO Forum here: bit.ly/CSW66ParallelEvent23

Overview: 

This session will be led by grassroots women leaders and feminist advocates and is an opportunity to strengthen our shared feminist analysis and common narrative on land, historical injustices, corporate capture, and the structural impacts of women’s land rights violations on human rights and the environment, particularly in the context of the climate and biodiversity crises.

Panelists:

Juana Toledo: Consejo de Pueblos Wuxhtaj - Guatemala

Naw Ei Ei Meen: Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) and Promotion of Indigenous and Nature Together (POINT), Myanmar

Eunice Chepkemoi: Ogiek Peoples Development Program (OPDP), Kenya

Nathalie Rengifo Alvarez: Corporate Accountability, Colombia

Patricia Bohland: LIFE – Education Sustainability Equality e.V.; Women & Gender Constituency Focal Point Team, Germany

Martha Carlota Aguirre Valenzuela: Comité Cuenca Río Sonora and Project on Organizing, Development, Education, and Research (PODER), Mexico

Co - Moderators:

Diana Alzeer: Al-Haq - Palestine

Lara Dominguez: Minority Rights Group International - United Kingdom

Languages:  

English, Spanish, Arabic, French