Gender Women environmental defenders: Empowerment for transformative change

This briefing from the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) outlines a call for events designed to mobilize knowledge from women environmental human rights defenders (EHRDs). The initiative focuses on the intersectional discrimination faced by women EHRDs and seeks to showcase how their empowerment and mobilization can transform power imbalances that drive gender and social inequality, particularly within an Asian context.

• Environmental Human Rights Defenders (EHRDs) globally encounter discrimination and violence, including threats to their lives, while challenging the power structures that cause climate change and environmental destruction.
• Women EHRDs experience a compounded layer of discrimination due to gender, which intersects with race, class, sexuality, ethnicity, and nationality to create distinct forms of social marginalization and affect their ability to engage in contestation.
• The SEI call prioritizes events that build networks among women environmental defenders across different countries in Asia, focusing on strategic themes such as land grabbing, natural resource management, disaster risk, and climate-driven displacement and migration.
• The objective of the supported events is to identify barriers faced by women environmental defenders across various sociopolitical and cultural contexts and to demonstrate how their mobilization transforms entrenched power imbalances.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (n.d.). Gender Women environmental defenders: Empowerment for transformative change. https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/05-gender-2020-final-clean-1.pdf

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Gender Women environmental defenders: Empowerment for transformative change. n.d. https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/05-gender-2020-final-clean-1.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitutendgender, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Gender Women environmental defenders: Empowerment for transformative change}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, url = {https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/05-gender-2020-final-clean-1.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }