Community communication is a powerful tool to tell the stories developed by communicators from the peoples and communities of the Amazon, who teach us about the struggles in defense of their lands from their own voices and narratives. In this sense, Hivos and the Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA), within the […]
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Collaborative podcast series on the defense of the Amazon produced by Indigenous communicators
Community communication is a powerful tool to amplify the struggles of Indigenous peoples and local communities in the Amazon. Being developed within and by the members of the communities, it is an approach to the realities that afflict them, which is told from their voices and their experiences. For this reason, within the framework of […]
DEFENDERS DEFENSE PROGRAM: Mechanism for Amazonian Indigenous People on the Frontlines
In the fourth episode of #SolutionsfortheAmazon, Michael McGarrel, Human Rights Coordinator of Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin presents the Defenders Defense Program, a system to monitor and respond to human and territorial rights violations in the Amazon through:
👉 Legal assistance and litigation
👉 Advocacy
👉 Education
👉 Sustainability
Learn more about this defense mechanism for Amazonian Indigenous People on the Frontlines and share it with your friends.
Working group on the Initiative “The Amazon for Life, let’s protect the 80% of it by 2025”, impulsed by COICA
The second meeting of the new cycle of the Learing Community of the Program All Eyes on the Amazon (AEA) took place on Thursday January 20 at 09:00 am (Ecuador and Peru timezone). This meeting had the participation of local partners from Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru, as well as specialized partners from the AEA consortium. […]
All eyes on the Amazon: linking strategies, territories and organizations
This session brought Indigenous and local leaders together to share, evaluate and recommend strategies for mainstreaming Indigenous and grassroots voices in global climate agendas. Drawing on successes and lessons learned from the All Eyes on the Amazon (AEA) explored: -Key issues, threats and challenges facing Indigenous and local people in the Amazon Basin Current strategies, […]
Global Markets and Consequences: Deforestation, Degradation and Rights Violations in the Amazon
Second session of the Virtual Conference “Defending the Amazon: For Nature, For people”. Held on June 03, 2020 in the framework of World Environment Day. Panel with: Michael McGarrell, Human Rights Coordinator at the Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin – COICA and Forest Policy Officer and GIS specialist for the Association of […]
Intercultural Healthcare Measures for Indigenous Peoples
AEA WEBINAR SERIES: DEFENDING THE AMAZON DURING COVID-19 The second session of this AEA webinar series (April 29) exposed the unpreparedness of healthcare systems in the Amazon region to provide an effective and intercultural assistance to Indigenous peoples (IPs) in response to COVID-19, how the disease specifically impacts their wellbeing, and alternative measures and strategies to overcome […]