On occasion of September 21st, International day of Struggle against Tree Plantations, women from several countries from West and Central Africa have taken the initiative to release simultaneously the petition we enclose below.
The petition is an urgent request from women in Africa to stop the suffering and the violent impacts the expansion of industrial oil palm plantations is creating on womens´ lives, that affect women in and outside the African continent: Violence, sexual abuses, rape, harassment, persecution, destruction of their means of livelihoods.
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Declaración internacional frente a la expansión de monocultivos de árboles - Red Latinoamericana contra los Monocultivos de Árboles (Recoma).
On September 21st we celebrate the International Day of Struggle against Tree Monocultures.
Click here to download this declaration in English
Women and the expansion of industrial oil palm plantations
Press Release
More than 80 organizations and individuals from all over the world sent today the letter enclosed below to relevant authorities in Brazil, Germany and California / USA rejecting “any and all attempts to intimidate or censor people and organizations that critique and oppose the environmental and climate policies implemented by the Acre government.”
July 21, 2017
Dear friends,
We need your support to the motion enclosed below in solidarity with leaders from communities and organizations from the State of Acre in Brazil who are being pressured and threatened due to their critics and oposition to the climate and environmental policies being implemented by the state government in Acre.
Forest rights movements in India need support to prevent the commercial takeover of forests from the forest communities for monoculture tree plantations.
Please find below a petition. Urgent signatures of both organisations and individuals would be very welcome. Deadline for endorsing the letter is Friday 14! Send your endorsement to the following email:
sanghamitradubeyikk(at)gmail.com
After IUFRO: Campaign Denounces Violence of Timber Industry
“Get the forestry corporations out of UdeC” & “Ciao IUFRO” Photo: Keith Brunner
We, forest dwellers, rubber tappers, Apurinã, Huni Kui, Jaminawa, Manchineri and Shawadawa indigenous people, members of supportive organizations and the Jesuit Travelling Team, teachers from different universities, united in the city of Xapuri in the Brazilian state of Acre from 26 to 28 May 2017, at the meeting "The effects of environmental / climatic policies on traditional populations", declare:
- That, at this moment of resurgence, we are unifying the struggles of indigenous peoples and rubber tappers in the same cause. Our union is our main weapon against capital.
Dear Guadalupe,
My name is Guilherme and I’m the coordinator of the Civil Society and Producer Organizations Team in FAO’s Unit of Partnerships (OPCP) under the Office for Partnerships, Advocacy and Capacity Development (OPC).
FAO acknowledges receipt of the Open Letter regarding FAO’s definition on forests, and took note your critical remarks.
