WMC Climate
July 13, 2023 | Sheany |
Environment
Indonesian Women Lead Protests Against Sand-Mining, Calling Men ‘Too Emotional’
In 2021, when a mining company began setting up camp in the iron-sand-rich Indonesian coastal village of Pasar Seluma with plans to start operations, the local women agreed that they’d be leading the protests this time around.
WMC Climate
February 03, 2023 | Sheany |
Environment
As Seawater Erodes an Indonesian Village, Women Lead Climate Action to Save Their Homes
The village where Nunung, 48, lives has been her home ever since she was a baby. But much has changed since she was a little girl, including the dangerous shrinking of the nearby beach, which has been subsumed by the Indian Ocean by as much as 33 yards since 2011 — threatening the adjacent homes.