Archive for April 2010
Women and Land celebrates 1st anniversary
Happy (almost) Birthday! The Sacred Earth Advocacy Network, a project of WEA’s Women and Land Initiative, will celebrate its first birthday this June! Over the past year, we’ve established a thriving and growing network of advocates applying their legal, policy and business expertise in pro bono partnership with indigenous women environmental justice leaders in North…
Read MoreVideo! 2010 West Africa Women and Water Training
2010 West African Women & Water Training Program from Unseen Pictures on Vimeo.
Read MoreThe Black Mesa Mine Mess
Women Earth Alliance’s Caitlin Sislin has written on High Country News about the current opportunity for comment regarding the Peabody Western Coal Company’s water permit review process. She writes: “A controversial clean water permit for a coal mine complex sited at a Navajo and Hopi sacred mountain is once again up for review by the…
Read MoreCaitlin and WEA in the news
Women Earth Alliance’s Advocacy Director Caitlin Sislin was interviewed by VolunTourism, an organization that promotes volunteering around the world. In it she says, “Collaboration with and support of … women leaders is really an investment in health, sustainability and justice for communities.” Read the full interview here!
Read MoreOne of many extraordinary women
The women involved in Women Earth Alliance are extraordinary women. Olanike Olugboji, a participant in the Global Women’s Water Initiative’s 2008 African Women and Water Training, has launched a new venture and has written about it on World Pulse. She writes, “when people’s daily needs are met, they are better able to think about the…
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