Social movements are the backbone of social change.
To bring about a just world, we must build on the strength of vibrant progressive movements.
Haiti’s Peasant Movement of Papaye are building solutions to food and water crises in Haiti’s embattled Central Plateau, and expanding agroecological farming methods.
Since 1983, we have made $44,300,000 in cash grants and material aid support to our global partners.
Mixe Peoples Services is an indigenous organization supporting human rights work for more than 130,000 people in 30 communities in the state of Oaxaca, particularly for organizing against mining and extraction.
More than 50 Brazilian organizations and social movements working on issues related to the environment, human rights, workers' rights, indigenous peoples and traditional peoples and communities have filed a "Letter in defense of the historic position of Brazil on forest offsets " with the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It is in reaction to an attempt to enable the use of forests in offsets, a measure seen as a false solution to the challenge of climate change.
Human rights organizations and funders in Latin America need to rethink how they protect defenders in light of increasing threats from non-state actors and impunity encouraged by the state.