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The communities of the Tariquía nature reserve say "no" to gas extraction. Now YPFB, Petrobras and the Bolivian government will have to respect their grassroots decision. The companies tried to enter the reserve by force on Friday with help of the police.

Such an amazing demo today! Thank you to everyone who joined us ✊🧡 Great to have the BBC there covering it 👏👏🙌🙌

So proud of everyone who showed up today outside Derwentside IRC to stand in solidarity with everyone detained in detention centres across the UK 🧡

MORE coal mining in 2024?!🤦🤦🤦 Support Cyngor Sir Gâr to reject this extension application a *2nd* time by writing your objection here: actionnetwork.org/letters/no-to-… ...& share share share 🙏

Yes! We have now reached 50% of the donations that we need to make the ¡Escucha la tierra! radio project possible 🌱📻 Please help us raise the other 50%. It is more urgent than ever to tell these women's stories and mobilise support for their struggles.

Workers from Petrobras and YPFB have today forced their way into Chiquiacá in Bolivia's Tariquía National Reserve, without consultation and in violation of the decision taken organically by local peasant unions to reject gas development in the area #extractivism #rights

29 community members from Bolivia's #Tariquía Reserve are facing criminal charges for opposing the entry of Petrobras and YPFB into their communities without prior consultation and in violation of a recent vote by local peasant unions to reject gas extraction

Learn more about their struggle in this 29-min open access documentary, which was presented as evidence in the hearing youtube.com/watch?v=R3SbF-… See also work by Cedib and Floor van der Hout

🌟 Well done to Prof Katy Jenkins for winning the 2024 Best Paper Award from Progress in Development Studies! You can access the #OpenAccess paper "Between Hope and Loss: Peruvian Women Activists’ Visual Contestations of Extractive-led Development" here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Campesina women in the Tariquía National Reserve stand up against impending gas extraction which will have detrimental impacts on the environment and local communities’ ways of life. ✍🏽 Floor van der Hout for our #EnvironmentalDefenders series lab.org.uk/women-criminal… #Chiquiaca #YPFB

📣You can help amplify their stories of resistance by sharing this article & donating to the Crowdfunder for their radio project ¡Escucha la tierra! Only 6 days left on the campaign. Link is in the intro to the article. lab.org.uk/women-criminal… x.com/FloorHout/stat…

Families are taking it upon themselves to fight the staggering levels of child poverty in Newcastle and the North East, but should they have to? We spoke to parents and charities about how local and central governments could lift children out of poverty. bigissue.com/news/social-ju…

I wrote an article for LAB about the criminalisation of women environmental defenders who resist gas extraction in Tariquía. Please share and consider donating to the crowdfunder for a radio project with the women 📻🌱 tinyurl.com/bd2wun6j

⏱️4 days to go to raise the remaining £600 to make radio project ¡Escucha la tierra! possible, that seeks to amplify women's stories of resisting resource extraction in the TIPNIS and Tariquía territories in Bolivia. Can you help? tinyurl.com/bd2wun6j

"They are prosecuting us for nothing more than defending the environment, as defenders of life and water" Read my article for LAB about the criminalisation of women environmental defenders in Bolivia and consider donating lab.org.uk/women-criminal…

Wow we are very close to our crowdfunder target now! 😊24 hours to raise the remaining £185. Help amplify the voices of women resisting resource extraction in Bolivia. Donate here: tinyurl.com/bd2wun6j SLAS Society for Latin American Studies Northumbria Centre for Global Development

#Pronunciamiento Autoridades del Consejo de Gobierno Originario de la Nación Lípez se pronuncian para NO aprobar los contratos entre YLB y el consorcio chino CBC. Denuncian que son decisiones anticonstitucionales y vulnera derechos de pueblos indígenas. cedib.org/biblioteca/pro…

The Inter-american Court of Human Rights accepted the case presented by criminalised environmental defenders from the Tariquía nature reserve. Hearing will be in March. lavozdetarija.com/2025/02/12/tar…