Rural and Indigenous Women's Statement on Climate Change: A Submission to the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

We, rural and indigenous women from Asia, the Pacific and other parts of the world, face enormous threats and damage to our lives and rights as a consequence of climate change including the unbridled manner by which measures are being proposed and undertaken to adapt to and mitigate this phenomenon and its impacts. As women farmers, fisherfolk, herders, farm workers, indigenous food producers and natural resource managers, we rely heavily on primary resources, which are being negatively affected and destroyed by climate change.  [...more]

Roots for Equity Celebrates Rural Women's Day in Pakistan
Press Release, 15 October 2009

Roots for Equity, in collaboration with rural women's organizations from Hyderabad, Badin and Tando Mohammed Khan, celebrated Rural Women's Day on October 15, 2009 at the Hyderabad Press Club in Hyderabad, Sindh Province, Pakistan. The event featured speakers Sony Bheel, Veena, Tabasum Bhatti, Hasina Ali, Sainth, Azra Sayeed and Alo Bheel and culminated in a statement of demands to the government. [...more]

CPA Pioneer Receives International Recognition for Protection of Indigenous Rights, Ancestral Land, and Culture

BAGUIO CITY (October 5)-Cordillera Peoples Alliance founding member and pioneer Mother Petra Macliing, was chosen as one of the awardees of Women's World Summit Foundation's (WSSF) Laureate Prize for Rural Women for the year 2009. Mother Petra's invaluable and historic contribution for the protection of indigenous rights to self determination and ancestral land was distinctly recognized alongside the efforts and contributions of the other 9 awardees worldwide. [...more]

Press Release - Proceedings to the Asian Rural Women's Conference: Rights, Empowerment and Liberation 2008

We are pleased to announce the publication of the Proceedings of the Asian Rural Women's Conference: Rights, Empowerment and Liberation held in Tamil Nadu, India on 6-8 March 2008. [...more]

Asian Rural Women on Women's Day 2009: "Because Women Are Still Not Equal"

We mark the International Women's Day as a day to declare our strongest condemnation and resistance against imperialist globalization that sows poverty and hunger in Asia, affecting rural women. [...more]

Rural Women March and Rally on International Women's Day!

Empowering Ourselves Against Fundamentalism!