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May 28, 2012

The Word on Women - Indigenous Women Lead Land Rights Struggle in Ecuadorean Amazon

By Maria Caspani, TrustLaw, UK- When Argentinian oil company CGC began seismic testing on their ancestral land - in one of the most remote and pristine areas of the Ecuadorean Amazon - it was the women of the Sarayaku community who decided to take a stand against Big Oil.
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Standing Up to the ‘Landgrabbing’ Foresters

by Hazel Healy, New Internationalist, UK - Mixed in between the sunflowers, you can see the tips of pine trees, peering over the rim of...
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Horrifying new trend: Posting rapes to Facebook

By Mary Elizabeth Williams, Salon.com, USA - It’s yet another story of how social media can apparently become a tool for abuse — and evidence...
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Too Soon to Tell: The Case for Hope, Continued

by Rebecca Solnit, Middle East Online, UK - Ten years ago, my part of the world was full of valiant opposition to the new wars...
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Invisibility of Mothers

by Zubeida Mustafa, Dawn, Pakistan - As a new government enters the corridors of power in Sindh it will find itself empowered with an innovative...
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Legacy of a Feminist Revolutionary

by Kathleen B. Jones, Open Democracy, UK- It is time to give Firestone her due. Rereading her today, more than forty years after her work...
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