PRESS RELEASES
Media requests and inquiries may be directed to:
katherine@wecaninternational.org
(Communications & Outreach Coordinator)
May 10, 2022
Indigenous Women Call for Protecting Old Growth Forests with the Roadless Area Conservation Act
April 27, 2022
Indigenous Women Leaders & over 200 Groups Urge the Army Corps to Stop the Line 5 Pipeline Expansion
April 21, 2022
Milestone for Women Land Defenders in Latin America & Caribbean: Historic COP1 for the Escazú Agreement
April 19, 2022
Frontline Leaders Call on World's Two Biggest Asset Managers to Adopt Indigenous Rights & Deforestation Policy
March 21, 2022
Civil Society Organizations Host a Series of Workshops for Financial Institutions to Align with Paris Climate Agreement and Human and Indigenous Rights
February 28, 2022
Women’s Group Responds to the Newest IPCC Report:
Women’s Leadership is Vital for Climate Resiliency, Adaptation, and Biodiversity Protection
January 25, 2022
Conservation, Indigenous Groups and Public Call for Swift Restoration of Tongass Roadless Protections
January 24, 2022
Indigenous Women Highlight the Importance of ‘America’s Climate Forest’ Following a Critical Public Comment Period
January 21, 2022
Indigenous Women Gather to Highlight the Importance of the Roadless Rule in the Tongass Rainforest Following a Critical Public Comment Period
November 18, 2021
Civil Society Calls on Equator Principles Association to Take Action on Climate, Biodiversity and Human Rights at AGM
November 6, 2021
Global Grassroots, Indigenous and Frontline Women Leaders Speak Out for Climate Justice at COP26
November 4, 2021
Report Back from the Rights of Nature Tribunal in Glasgow: Foundations for Systemic Change in Climate Solutions
October 28, 2021
Bold and Necessary Words Delivered by Women’s Group During High Level UN Session in Lead-up to COP26 This Week
October 25, 2021
Delivering Climate Action – for People, Planet & Prosperity
A High-Level Urgent Meeting convened by the President of the seventy-sixth session of the UN General Assembly
October 11, 2021
Water Protectors to deliver 1 million petitions to Stop Line 3 oil pipeline
September 23, 2021
Global Women’s Climate Assembly for Climate Justice Kicks off this Saturday with an Urgent Call to Action Leading up to COP26
September 14, 2021
Press Call: Global Women's Assembly for Climate Justice Calls on Governments and Financial Institutions to Act Now
September 7, 2021
Global Women’s Climate Assembly for Climate Justice Set to Produce Urgent Call to Action Leading up to COP26
August 18, 2021
Line 3 Indigenous Water Protectors Meet with U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders over Human Rights Violation Concerns
July 15, 2021
Indigenous Women Uplift Biden Administration’s Decision to Protect the Tongass National Forest
June 24, 2021
Women’s Group Responds to Biden Administration Announcement Siding with Trump's Decision on Line 3 Pipeline in Minnesota
June 17, 2021
Indigenous Women Leaders Resisting Line 3
Invite Secretary Deb Haaland to Minnesota
“Honor the Treaties!”
June 11, 2021
Indigenous Women Respond to the Biden Administration’s Plans to Revoke the Roadless Rule Exemption in the Tongass National Forest in Alaska
May 26, 2021
In the Lead up to June Mobilization, Over 300 Groups Call for President Biden to take Presidential Action to Stop the Line 3 Pipeline Project
April 14, 2021
New Report Details the Gendered and Racial Impacts of the Fossil Fuel Industry in North America and Complicit Financial Institutions
March 9, 2021
Civil Society Organizations Host a Series of Workshops for Financial Institutions to Align with the Paris Climate Agreement
March 2, 2021