2021
Environmental Activism in the Americas – Rights, Threats and Criminalisation
May 20th – 1 pm – Online
Webinar analysing the threats that land defenders face in the Americas. Our objective is to examine the strategies and practices used to criminalize them and the potential answers adopted.
The talk (in English and Spanish) will be structured in the form of a conversation between our two panellists, Jakeline Romero, from the Fuerza de Mujeres Wayuu in La Guajira (Colombia), and Isabel Matzir, from the Resistencia de Cahabón in Alta Verapaz (Guatemala), wife of the Maya Q'eqchi ' leader and defender of the land Bernardo Caal, currently incarcerated. With them we’ll discuss the fear campaigns, false accusations and even attacks suffered by those who oppose the economic interests of large corporations and states in Latin America.