 Of course in certain countries and a lot of countries, you see women in the front line of this strength and logically so because they are the ones who knows by heart and by their indigenous knowledge on how mining for example is going to impact on their food, how mining will impact on the animals, how mining will impact on the biodiversity. These are intangible in the eyes of a lot but for women this is intrinsically part already of their very nature because of their well connection to Mother Earth. The importance of family, the importance of the water, the importance on children. We need the women to bring those issues to the table of negotiation and to be able to say no to a development project on those grounds. The grounds that the women will bring and then the community will decide. We've been taught that our identity comes from the land and our songs are on the land and that when you do an environmental assessment does not come up. People don't ask those questions of how are you going to be impacted. They just tell you that there's going to be lots of jobs and lots of money coming into the area and so we need to let this mine go through. After 2008 there was a mining conference or summit because mining was starting to pick up in British Columbia and so they were called all the chiefs together Somebody realized how many women were standing up at this mining conference. Either counselors or chiefs saying what about the communities, it's not just about jobs, what about our families, what about the food security issue, what about the water. Thanks to Kairos, we have partnered with the indigenous women from South America, countries and beyond. I have heard atrocious stories of violence, of murder, of all kinds of abuses. No is that men don't live in the impact of mining, sin embargo, women live it in a different way and we believe it's much more violent. When we see that women are sexually harassed, when women are sexually raped, when they are persecuted in their communities. We're already a vulnerable population by imposing this amount of pressure on a community is going to magnify those vulnerabilities. We live along the highway of tears, we're already concerned about our women. Research shows that when a mine or a big development comes in that it's usually women that are impacted. The abuse is not just against the land, but against the women as well. So these two things are connected, the exploitation of land and the exploitation of women's bodies. We as indigenous peoples of the world hold the key to the continuation of life on this planet. So with that I just feel empowered, I feel that when women join their hands together for our beloved mother, the earth, that she will be our greatest ally.