Growing leadership of Indigenous and community women in climate and environmental spaces : The links to gender-based violence
November 02, 2023 Written by for TINTA (The Invisible Thread) From forest fires raging across North America, Europe and the Mesoamerican region, to a proliferation of tropical cyclones in Southeast Asia, humanity as a whole has undergone an unprecedented amount of climate related events this year. Due to their traditional roles as the primary caregivers […]
TINTA and Our Allies at New York Climate Week : From Translating Words to Supporting Conversations
November 02, 2023 Written by for TINTA (The Invisible Thread) “This blog was originally written in Spanish and automatically translated using artificial intelligence.” This year, TINTA was once again invited to coordinate the interpretation team for the Global Alliance of Territorial Communities (GATC) at New York Climate Week (NYCW). The week provided an important opportunity […]
Cross-learning and youth leaders’ exchange on the Home-coming movement experience
October 9, 2023 Written by Alejandra Salgado Martínez for TINTA (The Invisible Thread) “This blog was originally written in Spanish and automatically translated using artificial intelligence.” South-Sulawesi, Indonesia — Indigenous peoples and local communities are in the front lines of nature defense, protecting their ancestral territories and practicing sustainable management in tropical forests. Multiple challenges […]
Indigenous Women of Brazil Are the Seed That Will Heal the World
October 4, 2023 Written by Leticia Doormann for TINTA (The Invisible Thread) “This blog was originally written in Spanish and automatically translated using artificial intelligence.” The National Articulation of Indigenous Women Warriors of Ancestrality (ANMIGA) was born as an organic space for action led by Indigenous women from all over Brazil in April 2019. During […]
COPAG carries out its first territorial mission in the community of Trois-Sauts
July 13, 2022 Por adminen News, Territories, Uncategorized French Guiana — From April 16 to 20, The Invisible Thread (TINTA) accompanied the new representative organization of the indigenous peoples of French Guiana, COPAG, in its first territorial mission in the community of Trois-Sauts. COPAG, the Coordination of Indigenous Peoples Organizations of Guyana, was formally established in August 2021 […]
Gender Inclusion workshop with the Indigenous Youth Front of the Archipelago (BPAN)
July 7, 2022 Por adminen News, Territories, Uncategorized Bogor, Indonesia — In January 2022, for the first time in its 10-year history, BPAN elected a woman, Michelin Sallata, to lead the Indonesian indigenous youth movement. However, gender equality within the communities and the organization is still not considered a relevant issue to be brought to […]
Women leaders of the Global Alliance of Territorial Communities create a common agenda
June 17, 2022 Por adminen News, Territories, Uncategorized Talamanca, Costa Rica — Leaders of the indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica, the Amazon Basin and Brazil met to discuss the effects of the climate crisis in their territories and to demand spaces in international decision-making platforms on climate change. The agreements of the leaders take into consideration […]
First Film Festival of the Unión Maya Itzá Cooperative, re signifying history
April 11, 2022 Por adminen News, Territories, Uncategorized On the occasion of the twenty-seventh anniversary of the Cooperative Unión Maya Itzá, the young leaders of the Mesoamerican School of Leadership and the Network of Community Communicators of ACOFOP «Red Compa» organized on April 6, 2022, the «First Film Festival» in the history of the UMI, as the community is known in […]
Activism and digital tools for the strengthening of indigenous languages in Mesoamerica
March 14, 2022 Por adminen News, Territories, Uncategorized Conversations, February 17 & 18, 2022 Within the framework of the International Mother Language Day, whose emphasis on the year 2022 promotes reflection on the use of technology for multilingual learning, we take the opportunity to celebrate the cultural and linguistic diversity of the forest territories of Mesoamerica, […]