Today on World Water Day, we celebrate the essential importance of clean water to our lives.
Water is essential to all life. Today, we continue advocating for freshwater and raising awareness for those who fight for the rights of rivers, protection of riverine and indigenous community rights, and access to clean, undammed, undiverted free-flowing rivers. Below are two events today to register and participate in.
NGO CSW Forum Event – #WeWomenAreWater campaign: Amplifying gender-just climate solutions
Register 👉 https://bit.ly/3Ik6OSb
Join us and partners for #WorldWaterDay at the UN annual Commission on the Status of Women meeting. #CSW66
How can water, gender #justice, and #climate finance add up to true #ClimateSolutions? For #WorldWaterDay on Mar 22, join
the Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action (GAGGA Alliance) for a discussion with women environmental #HumanRights defenders.
Speakers will include representatives from:
– Lokiaka Community Development Centre, Niger Delta
– Urgent Action Fund Africa
– Organización de Mujeres Artesanas de Santa Rosa, Paraguay
– Colectivo CASA, Bolivia
– INWOLAG, Nepal
– Women in Action on Mining in Asia (WAMA)
Moderated by Monti Aguirre, International Rivers’ Latin America Program Manager
Speakers discuss the false climate solutions and extractive activities impacting their water, and why climate finance actors would do better to invest in the transformative, local climate actions and gender-just climate solutions they are leading. #WeWomenAreWater #WomenAndRivers
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Registrarse 👉 https://bit.ly/3Ik6OSb
Los oradores incluirán representantes de:
– Lokiaka Community Development Centre, Niger Delta
– Urgent Action Fund Africa
– Organización de Mujeres Artesanas de Santa Rosa, Paraguay
– Colectivo CASA, Bolivia
– INWOLAG, Nepal
– Women in Action on Mining in Asia (WAMA)
Moderado por Monti Aguirre, International Rivers’ Gerente de Programas de América Latina
North Country Rights of Nature Symposium
Register: https://intlrv.rs/3Id9HnV
Today on #WorldWaterDay for a #RightsofNature panel discussion on how to create an Ecocentric governance system for the waterways of the Kaniatarowanénhne / St. Lawrence River Watershed, Haudenosaunee Territory.
The discussion will cover how to protect the waterways and the environments they support, respect the river’s fundamental rights, and fullfill our duty as guardians of the rivers and the regions environmental future.
🦋 The Symposium
A panel of traditional knowledge holders, legal experts, and community organizers will join together virtually to discuss how to create an ECOCENTRIC governance system for the region’s waterways. The conversation will cover topics ranging from the environmental threats facing the rivers and watersheds, the global “Rights of Nature” movement, indigenous stewardship practices, and how to reframe the relationship between people and the rivers. In the face of the climate crises, the programs will grapple with the moral implications of protecting the rivers of the “North Country” and will lay the groundwork for future legislative action.
🦋 Panelist / Speakers💧
💦 Abraham Francis- Program Manager for the Environment Program, Mohawk Council of Akwesasne
💦 Çaca Yvaire- Community Conservation Co-Director, NEFOC Land Trust
💦 Monti Aguirre- Latin America Program Coordinator, International Rivers
💦 Wakerahkáhtste “Louise McDonald-Herne”- Bear Clan Mother-Mohawk Nation Council
💦 Nicky Hylton-Patterson- ED, Adirondack Diversity Initiative
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Estamos cordialmente invitados al
ENCUENTRO: Derechos de los Ríos del Norte 🌊🌲❄️🪶🦅
💧22 de Marzo a las 18:30 PM EST
https://nocoenvironment.org/rights-of-nature
(North Country Rights of Nature Symposium)
🌬Unanse a nosotr@s para explorar la creación de una Declaración de Derechos para la cuenca del Kaniatarowanénhne / Río St. Lorenzo, territorio Haudenosaunee (EU/Canada).
💦 Link para registrarse al webinar: https://intlrv.rs/3Id9HnV