Big business wants to control our planet’s common natural resources to make profit—by taking over land, privatizing water, patenting seeds, and pushing aside anyone who gets in their way. Fortunately, there are people around the world—movements of peasants, Indigenous Peoples, women and youth—who are fighting to defend resource rights and to put the rights of people and communities ahead of corporate interests. Our partners are on the frontlines of this struggle.
At Grassroots International, we use resource rights as a way to frame political and economic struggles to win the most fundamental of human rights: the rights to land, water, and food. Without these natural resources, life itself is unsustainable.
Berta Cáceres and others were murdered for their activism defending the Lenca people and their land in Honduras. A trial recently sentenced some of her killers, but for her organization COPINH, the struggle for justice must continue.
Judge Manoel Erhardt suspended the eviction order for the Paulo Freire Training Center in the Normandia Landless Workers Movement settlement.
