Demilitarization is a matter of political urgency for many peoples around the world. Challenging the military control over peoples and territories means fighting for peace, for people’s sovereignty, and for a world without violence, imperialism, colonialism, arms race, and warfare. People’s lives are not disposable, and women’s bodies are not battlefields!
A leader of the Union of Peasant and Indigenous Organizations of Cotacachi reports on the repression experienced in the communities and what is at stake in the Popular Referendum
The article presents data and reflections on the security of women human rights defenders around the world amid rising violence and the advance of the far right