On 21 March, the International Day of Forests, 200 organizations have petitioned the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) stating that its forest definition dating back to 1948 is “misleading” and must be changed. According to the petition signatories, the FAO definition has allowed the plantations industry to hide the “devastating ecological and social impacts of large-scale monoculture tree plantations” behind a positive forest image.
Ethical Tribunal in Defense of the Bodies and Territories of Women and Gender Diverse People
Photo Credits: Pilar Anco of CMP Flora Tristán and Fran Ribeiro/SOS CorpoOn Friday, November 14, the Global Forest Coalition (GFC), the Brazilian Women's Articulation (AMB), the International Women, Bodies, and Territories Initiative, and CP Peru organized the Ethical...