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Press Conference – Indigenous Women from Brazil…

Press Conference – Indigenous Women from Brazil: Calls for Action to Protect Biodiversity, Indigenous Rights, and Climate – United Nations Biodiversity Conference 2024

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Indigenous women leaders from the Amazon and diverse biomes of Brazil will present their calls for biodiversity and climate action at COP16 and going forward through to the UNFCCC COP30.
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Additionally, there will be a presentation of an Indigenous women-led reforestation project in the Brazilian Amazon and the announcement of toolkits for the Escazú Agreement emphasizing the protection of women land defenders in Brazil.

Speakers: 

National Articulation of Indigenous Women Warriors of Ancestry (ANMIGA) Representatives,Puyr Tembé

Secretary of Indigenous Peoples of the State of Para, Brazil and Co-Founder of ANMIGA (Association of Ancestral Indigenous Women Warriors)

Brazil, Osprey Orielle Lake, Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) Founder and Executive Director

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