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Articles by Ndana Bofu
Berta Vive! Lessons from Honduras on resistance
One year ago, Honduras became headline news with the assassination of Berta Caceres. A distinguished indigenous leader, feminist, environmental defender and recipient of the 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize, Berta was killed for organizing opposition to a hydroelectric dam on the Agua Zarca River in Lenca territory.
The voice of Berta Cáceres has become the voice of millions
I spoke to Berta Cáceres the day she was murdered. I never imagined that later this year I would be in a demostration along with almost a thousand women in Honduras asking for justice for her murder. That day we had been talking about a workshop we were doing together on collective healing and power. The last thing she said to me was, “Take care, compita.” She called some of us compita or compa, short for compañera, a political term we use for a friend in the struggle.
Honduras: the battle to protect women human rights defenders
You shouldn’t have to risk your life to demand respect for your rights and the rights of others, but in Honduras hundreds of defenders have been threatened and murdered for doing just that. Most of these cases are not investigated or prosecuted. Honduran women human rights defenders delivered this message to UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders, Michel Forst, during a visit to the country in August.
Women’s equality will not come after the environmental revolution
Climate and environmental impacts are ravaging our planet, and women and marginalized groups are among those most affected. “We must resist in the different ways that we can and we must do it together, (as) our struggle is vast and intertwined.” We live in a world where global climate change is occurring at a much faster rate than previously predicted.
Stay Woke: sustaining feminist organising in an uncertain world
Take ten! Every time I have confronted an empty page on my computer in my struggle to write this article, it is due to a battle with the recurrent thought that there is nothing new to be said about the challenges confronting feminist movements today.
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