Autor :  Michelle Carrere y Vanessa Romo / Mongabay Latinoamérica

Mongabay Latam rastreó en Ministerios Públicos, fiscalías, defensorías del pueblo y 11 organizaciones de derechos humanos de Colombia, México, Ecuador y Perú los casos de defensores ambientales que enfrentan hoy procesos judiciales y construyó una base de datos para dibujar el rostro de esta criminalización.

Por JESÚS GONZÁLEZ PAZOS

Debemos aumentar la presión sobre las élites para conseguir que la naturaleza sea más valorada y que los impactos del ser humano sobre este planeta sean lo suficientemente positivos como para permitirnos afrontar el futuro con éxito.

A partir del año 2000, en algunos ámbitos científicos y ecologistas se empieza a usar el término de Antropoceno para denominar la era geológica que vivimos.

A Colombian Mayor surprises her constituents with land titles and uses live video and social media to spread civic messages about formalizing land tenure

Fuentedeoro’s Mayor, Patricia Mancera, took the world on a digital tour of her town. On Monday last week, Mancera’s team went live on Facebook, while walking door-to-door to deliver registered property titles to dozens of neighbors living in Fuentedeoro’s urban center.

Blog written by Robert Barnett and originally posted by Foreign Policy at: https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/05/07/china-bhutan-border-villages-security-forces/

Frente a la brutalidad del capital, las mujeres defienden la tierra y las comunidades en el interior de Marruecos. 

COVID-19 may have forced the 50th anniversary of Earth Day to be commemorated online last year, yet millions of people participated in calls to action. As we begin to look beyond the pandemic, however, it's vital to remember that we cannot go back to business-as-usual as far as our planet is concerned.

Advancing women’s land rights is a priority for the international development agenda. Yet, there is no consensus on which rights should be monitored and reported. Three indicators of women’s property rights are widely used in the literature. Each captures a different aspect of women’s land rights, but a recent paper explores the extent to which these different rights are held by the same person, using data from six African countries.