Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

October 25, 2024

NOW: Women Leading Solutions on the Frontlines of Biodiversity and Climate Crisis in Colombia




"We are never to be bought and sold, we are never to be enslaved," said Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca, urging women to rise up against the false solutions of carbon credits, and rescue the rivers, land and air from the corporations poisoning the Earth for future generations.


Press Conference: Women Leading Solutions on the Frontlines of Biodiversity and Climate Crises

Watch instant replay now:

http://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1r/k1rvk86l8b


Friday, October 25, 11:00 - 11:30 AM (COT)

The Media Center, Blue Zone, CBD COP16 Cali, Colombia

Frontline and Indigenous women leaders and global advocates will present solutions and strategies to tackle the interlinked biodiversity and climate crises, emphasizing the importance of gender equity, food sovereignty, forest protection and reforestation, traditional ecological knowledge, Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), protection of environmental human rights defenders, and financing genuine solutions in the Global Biodiversity Framework.

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