A atividade apresentará dados de Rama, Fetaema e LEPENG/UFMA que mostram que entre 2024 e 2025 mais de 400 comunidades tradicionais foram atingidas por agrotóxicos lançados por aviões e drones, destacando mapeamentos, denúncias e legislações municipais que proíbem a pulverização aérea, além das articulações políticas em defesa da agroecologia.

This session will bring together Indigenous voices from Latin America, Africa, and Asia to share concrete experiences of climate solutions and struggles for justice. Speakers will highlight both the challenges frontline defenders face and the transformative potential of Indigenous-led responses.

In this event the Saamaka tribe of Suriname share how spirituality, Seketi dance, apinti drums and our customary law have preserved 1.4M hectares of Amazon rainforest, our homeland. With Afro-descendant allies from Brazil, Colombia, Peru, we affirm unity as custodians of forests, rivers, and life.

This event articulates the link between climate justice and freedom of expression, which relates to the degree to which historically marginalized groups affected by climate change have the resources to express themselves through the media and access public information.