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Women's protests against mining get noticed in parliament

Thu, 03/18/2010 - 17:00 — Gillian H

In a recent question asked to mark International Women's Day in the House of Lords Guatemala was mentioned a couple of times.

“Mining and Human Rights: Beyond The Challenge”

Sat, 02/20/2010 - 18:19 — Kevin D
An International Conference entitled “Beyond the Challenge: Women, Mining and Human Rights” will be held in Guatemala from the 14 to 17 of March, 2010. The Conference will bring together women activists and representatives from partner organisations throughout Latin America as well as experts in the field of human rights, gender mainstreaming, sustainable development and corporate social responsibility.

At GSN, we have presented news and information on the situation in Guatemala with regard to the people’s struggle over multi-national mining interests. Our friends at the Latin American Mining Monitoring Programme (LAMMP) are co-hosting the Conference with the Union of Latin American Women (a regional network of women affected by mining).

This is the first public effort of rural and indigenous women human rights defenders affected by mining to raise awareness about the gender-based issues they face in their struggle to have their rights for self-determination, land and livelihood recognised by governments and corporations.

More information can be found here.

Impact of mining projects on women

Wed, 11/11/2009 - 22:26 — Kevin D

Historically, in Guatemala, the condition of female indigenous campesinas has many dimensions of exclusion: through being a woman, through our class, through being poor, and through being indigenous.

Nevertheless, at the beginnings of the 21st century, we women, in spite of these conditions, are playing a predominant role in the political struggle - we are making claims. Claims in defence of our rights, in defence of mother earth and her natural resources, in defence of our own lives, our physical, psychological and social integrity, and our own families and for future generations.

 

As mentioned earlier, an event was held recently through LAMMP to highlight cases which illustrated the range of obstacles faced by women in confronting powerful interests involved in resource extraction. The women represented communities in Ecuador, Peru and Guatemala, namely San Juan Sacatepequez and San Miguel Ixtahuacan.

You will find the attached report of interest.

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