PLENARY SESSIONS 3

Building Life Alternatives: Peruvian and Colombian Women Facing Extractivism

DATE: October 28, 2023

TIME: 8:00 am

9:30 am

LOCATION: Playa Grande Auditorium

SPEAKERS: Yolanda Flores Montoro, Celia Fasabi and Laura Brito Boriyu

MODERATOR(s): José Carlos Silva Macher and Raquel Neyra

Yolanda Flores Montoro
She is an Aymara woman and member of the Human Rights and Environment Association. She advises peasant communities on cases of violation of the rights of defenders, environmental rights, human rights, indigenous peoples issues and Mother Earth.
Celia Fasabi
She is a Community Health Agent in the community Nuevo San Juan, Loreto, Peru; She is Vice President of the Federation of Indigenous Women Huaynakana Kamatahuara Kana, an association of Kukama women that has initiated a legal procedure to declare the Marañon River as a subject of law.
Laura Brito Boriyu
She is part of the Wakuaipa Communication Collective of the Wayúu people in La Guajira, Colombia. This group is made up of young communicators and audiovisual producers, who denounce the localk socio-environmental consequences of one of the largest open-pit coal mines in the world.
Jose Carlos Silva Macher (Moderator)
PhD in Environmental Science and Technology from the ICTA-Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. MSc in Environment and Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Associate Professor and Academic Director in Economics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP).
Raquel Neyra (Moderator)
PhD in Sociology of Public and Social Policies from the University of Zaragoza. Post-doctorate at IDEA-UNAL. Master’s degree in international economics and MBA from the University Paris I-La Sorbonne. Activist and researcher in socio-environmental conflicts, violence and coloniality.

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