Gender and Environment Blog

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/international/2010/05/10/wv.afghan.girls.refuge.cnn

The Honey Bee Network is a collection of grassroots organizations and indigenous individuals who are creating innovative techniques of development that pertain to indigenous populations without toying with their identities.

http://www.ted.com/talks/anil_gupta_india_s_hidden_hotbeds_of_invention.html

http://www.sristi.org/hbnew/aboutus.php

http://www.ted.com/talks/kavita_ramdas_radical_women_embracing_tradition.html

This TED talk goes right along with our discussion on the knowledge that indigenous people have that we don't necessarily know about. Who are we to teach our ideas without accepting (or at least acknowledging) the ideas of other people?

Here is an article from the New York Times about James Cameron's experience among the indigenous peoples of the Amazon.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/world/americas/11brazil.html?scp=4&sq=avatar&st=cse

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/world/asia/28iht-quotas.html?scp=2&sq=women&st=cse

These women are taking control of their environments by being involved in politics in India.

A senior Iranian cleric says women who wear immodest clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for earthquakes. “Many women who do not dress modestly lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which increases earthquakes,” the cleric, Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi, was quoted as saying by Iranian media. Mr. Sedighi is Tehran’s acting Friday Prayer leader. Women in Iran, one of the world’s most earthquake-prone countries, are required by law to cover from head to toe but many, especially the young, ignore some of the stricter codes and wear tight coats and scarves pulled back that show much of the hair. “What can we do to avoid being buried under the rubble?” Mr. Sedighi asked during a prayer sermon on Friday. “There is no other solution but to take refuge in religion and to adapt our lives to Islam’s moral codes.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/20/world/middleeast/20briefs-Iran.html

link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/01/world/africa/01congo.html?ref=africa

below is an excerpt from the NYTimes article:

“The Hutus are still in the forest,” said one woman, referring to a rebel group that was originally from neighboring Rwanda. “We can’t go to our farms; it’s dangerous for women.”

When asked if she knew anyone who had been raped, she simply paused.

“Me,” she said. “Three men. About a year ago.”

United Nations officials call eastern Congo the rape capital of the world, and sexual violence seems to have become embedded in the culture. A recent study showed that it was not just the myriad armed groups haunting the hills who were preying upon women. The number of rapes by civilians has increased 17-fold in recent years.

“Sexual violence is as bad as ever,” Mr. Holmes said.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaGXeXMOT_0&feature=player_embedded

http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/watch/6/a_girl_like_me#

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gOmjsdsbVVWGuWZNrXPK-XMBn9iwD9F6UQA00

http://www.ww4report.com/node/8550

http://www.nativeamericannetroots.net/showDiary.do;jsessionid=1BE082F03012D50157946B6373BD7AFD?diaryId=471

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/opinion/15wed1.html?_r=1

sometimes it gets so depressing to read the news!

http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0111-hance_canclimate.html