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- 1. Women Who Cared for the Earth Stories of Six Activists in Six Minutes Presentation by Swati Arunprasad EMC, December 2010
- 2. Women Who Cared for the Earth Yosepha Alomang Battle against a Mining Giant… • West Papua, Indonesia • Leader of “Amungme” Community • Fought against Freeport‘s mining activities 2
- 3. Women Who Cared for the Earth Yosepha Alomang Battle against a Mining Giant… Freeport dumped 200,000 tons of mine tailing into the river daily!!! 3
- 4. Women Who Cared for the Earth Yosepha Alomang Battle against a Mining Giant… 4
- 5. Women Who Cared for the Earth Yosepha Alomang Battle against a Mining Giant… •Finally Success in May 2010!!! •Recipient of Goldman Environmental Prize 5
- 6. Women Who Cared for the Earth Rashida Bee and Champa Devi Shukla Fighting Toxic & Nuclear Contamination… • Bhopal Gas Tragedy • 27 T poisonous gases 6
- 7. Women Who Cared for the Earth Rashida Bee and Champa Devi Shukla Fighting Toxic & Nuclear Contamination… • 1989: 469-mile march to New Delhi • 2002: 19-day hunger strike in New Delhi 7
- 8. Women Who Cared for the Earth Rashida Bee and Champa Devi Shukla Fighting Toxic & Nuclear Contamination… “Beat Dow With a Broomstick!" Recipients of Goldman Environmental Prize 2004 2003: Hand delivered samples of toxic waste to Dow 8
- 9. Women Who Cared for the Earth Wangari Maathai Believing in Sustainable Forestry… • Kenyan environmentalist • Green Belt Movement • 1977 9
- 10. Women Who Cared for the Earth Wangari Maathai Believing in Sustainable Forestry… • 5,000 grassroots nurseries throughout Kenya • Over 20 million trees planted 10
- 11. Women Who Cared for the Earth Wangari Maathai Believing in Sustainable Forestry… "I know that I am doing this work for all who cherish freedom and justice and without such ideals, we can't save this planet." • Recipients of Goldman Environmental Prize 1991 • Nobel Peace Prize 2004 • Named one of "Heroes of the Environment " in 2007 by Time Magazine 11
- 12. Women Who Cared for the Earth Syeda Rizwana Hasan Environmental Policy and Advocacy… • 20,000 ship breaking workers, some as young as 14 in Bangladesh • One ship breaking worker dies every week and every day one worker is injured!!! 12
- 13. Women Who Cared for the Earth Syeda Rizwana Hasan Environmental Policy and Advocacy… • Ships laden with asbestos, PCBs, lead, arsenic and other toxic substances • 2005 to 2007, >250 ships, 2.5 million tons • 95% of each ship had steel coated with 10 - 100 tons of paint containing Pb, Cd, As, Zn and Cr 13
- 14. Women Who Cared for the Earth Syeda Rizwana Hasan Environmental Policy and Advocacy… • 2003: Petition with the Supreme Court to follow Basel • Feb 2006: Entry of SS Norway banned • May 2006: MM Alfaship left territorial waters 14
- 15. Women Who Cared for the Earth Syeda Rizwana Hasan Environmental Policy and Advocacy… Recipient of Goldman Environmental Prize 2009 • March 2009 : Tightening of ship breaking regulations • Closure of 36 ship breaking yards without environmental clearance 15
- 16. Women Who Cared for the Earth Laila Iskander Kamel Empowering garbage collectors… • Zabbaleen, a minority community in Cairo, Egypt • Informal waste picking from 1930s 16
- 17. Women Who Cared for the Earth Laila Iskander Kamel Empowering garbage collectors… • Designed innovative social and environmental projects to the garbage collectors since 1982 • Basic Health and Hygiene Education 17
- 18. Women Who Cared for the Earth Laila Iskander Kamel Empowering garbage collectors… Two Zabbaleens can collect waste from 350 homes using a horse cart & can earn 3 times the ave. income of a person!!! • Primary school • Paper recycling project • Weaving school • Health centre and small industries project established • Recipients of Goldman Environmental Prize 1994 18
- 19. Women Who Cared for the Earth Thuli Brilliance Makama Defending Environmental NGOs • Swaziland’s only public interest environmental attorney • 1992: Swaziland Environment Authority Act • 2002: First Minister for Environment excluded NGOs 19
- 20. Women Who Cared for the Earth Thuli Brilliance Makama Defending Environmental NGOs • Pressure from Makama’s Yonge Nawe Environmental Action Group • 2009: Court’s ruling that environmental groups will have a place on the Management Board to monitor actions of Swaziland Environment Authority Recipients of Goldman Environmental Prize 2010 20