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.
“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.”
From August 24 to September 7, a team of paddlers from the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) Indigenous Nation will venture 250 mi from their remote fly-in community to Hudson’s Bay. The message: “Respect our protection before this sacred landscape is poisoned by the diamond, gold, and metals mining companies who have set their sights on it.”
When Hurricane Felix struck the Moskitia coast of Central America in 2007, flooding and mudslides devastated the region. With a $3,000 grant, a local women’s group created three seed banks to safeguard subsistence farmers from the risks of losing everything again.
Last month, on the eve of his retirement, Global Greengrants Fund board member Stephen Pittam and the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust accepted the 2012 Raymond Georis Prize for Innovative Philanthropy.
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