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What Collective Power Looks Like

This booklet spotlights.our extraordinary networks that we have helped build, accompany and sustain. You will learn not only what women confront in hostile contexts, but also how they courageously respond with creative strategies that account for safety and risk and offer alternative solutions that support entire communities
Topic:
Alliance-building, Feminist movement-building, Women’s human rights
Keywords:
gender based violence, grassroots movements, protection, women's voices, social change

Alquimia: an Innovative Approach to Indigenous Women’s Leadership & Collective Power

The growing trend of criminalizing activists has become the number one approach for silencing activists who speak out against the devastating impacts of extractive projects on their lives. In this risky context, strengthening indigenous women’s safety is vital.
Topic:
Feminist movement-building, Feminist popular education, Women human rights defenders
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JASS Annual Report 2013

This report brings you stories and insights from across the JASS network. Here, you'll read how different women see their world and the innovative ways they are challenging abuses of power and building deeply democratic alternatives.
Topic:
Feminist movement-building, Women human rights defenders, Women’s human rights
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We’re So Proud! 2014 Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards

We are so excited to announce that the Mesoamerican Women Human Rights Defenders Initiative—a collaborative effort between JASS Mesoamerica and five partners—received the 2014 Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award on October 14th in Washington DC!
Topic:
Violence, Women human rights defenders, Women’s human rights
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Climate and Indigenous Peoples: the real dispute at the UN

With both the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples and the Climate Summit underway at the UN, far more important than official declarations will be who is allowed to speak and to be heard. Whose voice matters in this clash of worldviews.
Topic:
Economic justice, Violence, Women’s human rights
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Making Change Happen 5: Indigenous and Rural Women in Defense of Land, Territories and Women's Rights

This issue of Making Change Happen examines the threats, challenges, strategies and aspirations of indigenous and rural women within the greater JASS community. Why this focus? There is plenty of evidence to indicate that indigenous and rural women are facing increasing difficulties throughout the world.
Topic:
Economic justice, Empowerment, Violence
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Women Lead Efforts to Defend Land Rights in Mesoamerica

Across Mexico and Central America, indigenous women are leading their communities in efforts to defend their territories and natural resources against unregulated extraction projects and land grabs in the name of “development.” From Panama to El Salvador, women are exposing the injustices of multinational companies and their governments’ lax policies.
Topic:
Economic justice, Feminist popular education, Women human rights defenders
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Amidst Violence, Women Organize for Protection

The work of women human rights defenders is essential to achieving democracy and peace, especially in violent contexts, and supporting their protection and wellbeing is vital. In Mexico and Central America, women defenders are organizing themselves amidst alarming violence against women and activists.
Topic:
Feminist movement-building, Violence, Women human rights defenders
Keywords:
collective feminism, drug war, risk and security, safety, self care

Striking Down Violence in Mesoamerica

This year’s International Women’s Day sought to publicize the rampant problem of violence against women. While every country is fraught with different forms and levels of violence against women, it is clear that in times of instability, women pay the highest price. This is precisely the case in Mesoamerica.
Topic:
Feminist movement-building, Violence, Women human rights defenders
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SIF attends Central American conference on Communication and Technology for Indigenous and Rural Women

Article published by the Seattle International Foundation about the Mesoamerican Workshop on Communication for Rural and Indigenous Women: Women in the Media to Construct Citizenship), organized by Sinergia No’j and Just Associates (JASS).
Topic:
Empowerment, Feminism, Feminist popular education
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