News & Resources: ‘Human Rights’
India’s Dayamani Barla wins the first Ellen L. Lutz Indigenous Rights Award
May 16, 2013
Pioneering Indian journalist and indigenous activist Dayamani Barla will receive Cultural Survival’s first-ever Ellen L. Lutz Indigenous Rights Award on May 23 in recognition of her outstanding human rights work and dedication to indigenous people’s rights.
Read moreWhy indigenous activists fight
May 13, 2013
Indigenous activists around the world are fighting for their identities and their very survival. Ivan Torafing, an advisor to Global Greengrants Fund’s Next Generation Climate Board and an indigenous youth leader with Asia Pacific Indigenous Youth Network, shares why they keep going in the face of worsening criminalization.
Read moreGrassroots activism’s unsung role in saving Indonesia’s rainforest
Feb 20, 2013
In a major step forward for global climate and human rights, paper giant Asia Pulp & Paper has promised to stop bulldozing Indonesia’s rainforests. But in attributing APP’s new policy solely to market pressure, U.S. media have glaringly omitted the role grassroots activists have and will continue to play in holding APP accountable for its environmental and human rights record.
Read more12 Top Global Greegrants Successes of 2012
Dec 18, 2012
You know we always say your support makes a difference? As 2012 comes to a close, we’d like to share 12 of Global Greengrants Fund’s top success stories from the past year. Here are just some of the victories we celebrated in 2012.
Read moreHow Ecuador’s Sarayaku People Kept Big Oil Out
Dec 14, 2012
Some 1,200 indigenous people make up the Sarayaku community in the Ecuadorian Amazon. In 1996, the Ecuadorian government allowed a foreign company to begin prospecting their lands for oil. The government never consulted the local people. >>Keep reading.
Read moreUntiring Defender of Victims of Climate Change: Board Member & Advisor Awarded Rafto Prize
Sep 27, 2012
“Nnimmo Bassey links human rights to the climate by demonstrating how climate change has the greatest effect on the world’s most vulnerable people, the very people who have contributed least to the problem in the first place. By awarding its annual prize to Nnimmo Bassey, the Rafto Foundation underlines how the challenges we face regarding climate and the environment also have a human rights aspect.”
Read moreTragic Week in Paraguay
Jun 27, 2012
Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo has just been removed from office by Congress. It started with the massacre of landless peasants in Curuguaty on June 15th. This is a first-hand account explaining the chain of events that have shaken the country from the Curuguaty deaths to Lugo’s overthrow.
Read moreProtests Against River-Linking Plans Gain Momentum in India
Feb 4, 2011
Micahel Mazgaonkar, coordinator of Greengrants’ India Board, was on the front lines of the marches this January, protesting a government plan that would inundate up to 75 villages.
Read moreWe’ve reached 6,000 grants!
Jan 11, 2011
Dana Perry, our Grants Manager, on a Global Greengrants Fund landmark and how even one small grant can help protect lives and push for justice.
Read moreIndigenous Rights Activist, Grantee, Faces Unfair Deportation from Peru
Jul 8, 2010
Paul McAuley, a British missionary who has worked tirelessly on behalf of Amazonian communities facing invasive oil and gas development, has been accused of ‘inciting unrest’ by the Peruvian government – an offense that has threatened expulsion from his home of more than 20 years.
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