Tag Archives : Women’s Efforts on Behalf of Environmental Justice and Ecological Security


Cho Kai Kai (China, Hong Kong SAR)

Kaikai Cho is a member of Fanling North and Rural Co-residents, also, the core member of Mapopo Community Farm. She continues working on civil education about farming and environment conservation, and fight for issues of urban farming and land problem, etc. She started to participate in social movements since the anti-Northeast development, and now continued […]

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Liao Ching Hui (Taiwan)

Liao Ching Hui, Taiwanese, she is a free writer and the special reporter of the Taiwan Environmental Information Center. She concerns about ecological problems for a long time. Her reports, mostly, are concerning the ecological balance in Taiwan. Not only through the website of the Taiwan Environmental Information Center, her reports also available in her […]


Lin Mei Yue (Taiwan)

Lin Mei Yue, Taiwanese, a former contact person of “Seven Fund for Agricultural Development Foundation”. After she had graduated from the secondary school, she has influenced by her sister classmates and started to study in some agriculture-related courses. She studied in Song-Shan High School of Agriculture and Industry and National Chia-Yi Institute of Agriculture. Finally, […]


Chan Shun Hing (China, Hong Kong SAR)

  Chan Shun Hing was born in Hong Kong in November 1954, and graduated from the Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, the Hong Kong Polytechnic. In 1981-1982, she studied M.A. in Development Studies in the Institution of Social Studies in the Netherlands, then pursued her master degree and doctoral degree of Chinese Language […]

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Gloria Alvarez (Guatemala)

  Originally published on Young Voices Gloria Alvarez is a political scientist and international liaison who specializes in international development and economics. She currently works as a project manager at the Movimiento Civico Nacional in Guatemala City. Gloria studied International Relations and Political Science as an undergraduate at the Universidad Francisco Marroquín and earned a […]


R. Agnes Vimala (India)

  Vimala is 53 years old, leads the Tamil Nadu Women’s Forum (TNWF) which is a state level forum addressing women’s issues since 1991. Vimala has studied up to class XII, joined  Society for Rural Education and Development (SRED) as a field worker in 1985.  She attended training programs on gender sensitization, women’s rights, social […]

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Dr.Burnad Fatima.N (India)

  Dr. Natesan Burnad Fatima is the founder and Executive Director of the Society for Rural Education and Development (SRED) has been working among the Dalit (untouchable) community in Tamilnadu, India for the past 37 years. She has become a leader in the social movement seeking greater economic opportunity and political influence for these largely […]


Amirthammal (India)

  Recognition of women farmers Amirtham aged 53 years, studied up to 8th standard, is from Sirunamalli village of Vellore district, Tamil Nadu.  She is a member of “Rural Women’s Liberation Movement” started a branch of the movement in her village.  They put up a board for the movement too.  Men in the village became […]

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Jody Landers (United States of America)

  Originally published on The Adventure Project Photo by The Adventure Project Co-Founder and Board Member of The Adventure Project On their ten-year wedding anniversary, Jody and her husband adopted their two youngest children from Sierra Leone. Their experiences opened their eyes, broke their hearts and confirmed the desire to see a world where the […]