The second women leaders’ exchange took place in Chiang Mai, Thailand (from 29 July to 2 August), led by ESCRNet’s Women and ESCR, and the Social Movements working groups with substantive contributions from collective projects on corporate capture, climate justice and community-led documentation. The exchange gathered eighteen women leaders participants from indigenous peoples, peasants/small farmers, fisher folk, and other groups from eleven countries.
Women shared about the injustices they are confronting, and the forces, powers, actors, narratives they are resisting in the context of a developing model that commodifies land. Via panels, performances, and drawings, participants reflected particularly on those connections between land and corporate abuse (including corporate capture), climate justice, intersectionality in land-related struggles, and documentation, and started to articulate common demands in those realms.
