A Step Forward for Territorial Rights in Brazil
After 22 years of struggle, the Huni Kui people are making headway in getting official recognition of their territorial rights.
After 22 years of struggle, the Huni Kui people are making headway in getting official recognition of their territorial rights.
Grassroots International is honored to be a supporter of IALA Mexico and to be in long-term accompaniment of the movements behind it.
Amidst intersecting crises, movements are putting the principles of food sovereignty into practice on the ground, and they are launching a process toward a major global convergence.
Grassroots International stands with Indigenous movements at the forefront of the global climate justice movement. They are building upon centuries-long struggles for Indigenous sovereignty over land, water and other forms of territory.
As the Honduran general elections approach, Grassroots International joins our movement partners and allies in denouncing violence, repression, and the undermining of democratic processes in Honduras.
Grassroots International partner Comité de Unidad Campesina/the Peasant Unity Committee (CUC) is calling for international solidarity as Maya Q’eqchi’ communities face violent repression following peaceful protests of a mining operation.
25 years ago, united by the conviction “not about us without us,” peasant farmers from around the globe converged on the World Food Summit uninvited. In the years since, food sovereignty and the movements around it have grown in visibility, power and impact.
How do Indigenous and Black struggles around food sovereignty in the US intersect with those in Palestine, in terms of both the violence and trauma out of which they emerged and the forms of resistance they have generated?
What is known at the time of writing is that the death toll from Hurricanes Eta and Iota (currently nearing 200) continues to grow, while more than 200,000 are without homes and millions more are impacted by the combined effects of the hurricanes and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Activists, including Indigenous leaders from Brazil and Minnesota, spoke out against carbon pricing at an Environmental Grantmakers Association fall meeting. Against carbon pricing they offered life-sustaining climate solutions.