 Thank you so very much. On behalf of Kairos Canada, it's a great pleasure to welcome all of you to our workshop. I am Jane Therico. I'm the global partnerships coordinator here at Kairos. I would like to begin this meeting today with territorial acknowledgement to acknowledge that before we begin, we are meeting today on the traditional territories of the indigenous people across Turtle Island. We thank them for allowing us to meet and learn together on their territories. To the original caretakers of this land of which we stand, I acknowledge the land of the Huron-Wendat, Seneca and Mississaugas of the Credit Indigenous Peoples, the dish with one spoon territory where I am right now. To all that was here for thousands of years before us across Turtle Island, we honor the struggles and the lives of those who gave themselves for it. For those here today, we acknowledge the ancestors beneath our feet, we acknowledge the land. Our ears to the ground, we can hear them. The Cree, the Meti, the Dene, the Soto and Anishinaabe, the Dakota and Lakota nations, the Inuit, the Blackfoot, the Inu and all nations that came before us, and those yet to become. An infinity of footsteps of those who long called this land home, the unfolding of bundles, the undoing of colonization and the opening of this land to allow treaty to come alive. We affirm our relationship to each other and to the land. We acknowledge and pay respects to the indigenous peoples, to the indigenous nations and ancestors of this land. I acknowledge the land of the land of the Huron-Wendat, Seneca and the Mississaugas of the Credit Indigenous Peoples where I am right now. I will be co-moderating this workshop today with my colleagues at Kairos Canada, with Rachel Warden, who's here with us today, and with Gabriella Jimenez, who is the Latin America Partnerships Coordinator and also with Radia Meng, who is our Global Partnerships Coordinator, Africa and Climate Justice. So I want to thank you, my colleagues here, and we hope that we are going to have an amazing discussion for today. So for those of you who are new to Kairos, Kairos Canada has a long history of working in partnerships with women, with women organizations and movements in Canada and internationally as well, particularly in countries that have experienced prolonged conflict. For over 10 years, the Kairos Women of Courage Program has developed into an innovative, partner-led and transformative initiative, working with women-led organizations in Africa, in Asia, in the Middle East and in Canada, on issues of women, peace and security and the gender impacts of resource extraction. The program continues to enable Kairos and its partner organizations to successfully implement projects that directly respond to gender-based violence, address the impacts of women to protect human rights and the environment. Today we are also very honored to have with us a panel of women whom we highly respect and have the great pleasure of knowing and working with here today at Kairos. And I would like to introduce you all to our panelists for today. We begin with Sherry Piktu. Dr Sherry Piktu is a Miqmo woman from Litsuk to watercups through high rocks known as Bayer River First Nation, Nova Scotia. She is an assistant professor in the faculties of law and management at Dalhousie University, focusing on indigenous governance. Dr Piktu is also a former chief for her community and the former co-chair of the World Forum of Fisher People. She's a member of the Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Task Force on Indigenous and Local Knowledge. Her research interests include decolonizing treaty relations, social justice for indigenous women, indigenous women's role in food and life ways, and indigenous governance. Thank you very much, Dr Piktu, for being with us today and welcome. Next we have Shantel Bilulu, who is the project manager for Women, Peace and Security at Eritrea de la Justice in the DRC, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She has eight years experience defending, protecting and promoting human rights with Eritrea de la Justice. She has participated in and organized trainings on women's rights, popularization of laws and other legal instruments, and participated in advocacy actions carried out by civil society actors with government authorities for a change in policies vis-a-vis the rights of the population. In her work, Shantel was a company's survivor of sexual violence and is involved in the paralegal training for their care. We also have with us today Natalia Atsunuk. She is a Maya Kichakel woman and a victim and survivor of the Guatemala armed conflict. She has been part of the social movement in Guatemala for over 30 years. She holds a Bachelor of Law and Social Sciences. Her areas of expertise are human rights, indigenous peoples' rights, food sovereignty, land and environmental defense, economic justice, climate justice, and free trade agreements. She is committed to social and gender justice. Natalia is a member of the Association of Kahi Akhpop and the movement of women with constitutional power. She was an honorary witness for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. And lastly, in absentia, but on a prerecorded video, Beverly Longhead is currently the International Solidarity Officer at Catribul in the Philippines. She also acts as the coordinator of indigenous peoples' movements for self-determination and liberation of the Philippines. She is an ignorant belonging to the Tankayes of Sagada and Alba Bontoc Mountain Province of Philippines. I'm sorry for my mispronunciation. I'm doing the best that I can. And Beverly has a background in law and has been a long-standing advocate for youth and for indigenous peoples in the Philippines and abroad through her active role in social movements and human rights organizations. Beverly has also been a member and officer of the Corden Liralla People Alliance CPS in 1982, serving as Education Commission staff, Deputy Secretary General and Chairperson. She is now a member of the CPS Regional Advisory Council. Beverly was part of the planning team for the International People's Conference on Mining in 2015, and she was also a delegate at the International Gathering of Women Against Extractivism in Montreal in Canada in 2018. We thank all of our panelists today. Thank you so very much for being here with us today. So today's discussion will be shipped around a series of questions that will be asked to the panelists, and we will also try to include your questions so you can also add them and put them in the chat and we'll try to raise these questions. So to set the pace as the impacts of climate change become even more clear, the crisis is acting as a risk multiplier for conflict and security across the world. Increasing risks directly through displacement, economic shocks, natural disasters and rapid changes in livelihoods. Responses requires a transformational approach or approaches based on innovative solutions and inclusive policies, including with respect to gender. Understanding of the gender dimension of the climate crisis is promising, yes. And while there has been research on its differential impacts on men and women, as well as the exclusion of women from decision making on climate change, major gaps still remain including with respect to security as well. In many fragile and conflict-affected states, climate change engages efforts to secure peace and security while deepening gender inequalities. Women often bear the brunt of conflict over land and natural resources, climate-related displacement, and gender-based violence. And we know that every conflict is unique, but women's organizations and their leaders are always at the forefront of issues ranging from peacebuilding, conflict resolution, post-conflict recovery and economic recovery to climate mitigation and environmental protection. Usually they are unsupported and under-resourced, but women peacebuilders risk their lives and make tremendous sacrifices in order to rebuild their communities and to forge a better future for their societies. Despite some gains that have been made in ensuring that the recognition and participation of women in policy and decision making, there continues to be a persistent lack of progress in women's representation and leadership across the board on the climate mitigation, on women peace and security, on environmental and economic recovery. And employing a gender-responsive approach or approaches to policy and planning cannot however be guaranteed through increased representation of women alone. There are other important support mechanisms, both through traditional indigenous and local support, through allocation of funding streams, and through gender-focused analysis. And these are just some of the examples. So, not to preempt our panelists' perspectives on this issue. It is my pleasure to welcome our first speaker, Dr. Sherry Pictu to start us off. From your perspectives in activism, from academic scholarship, from local community engagement, can you speak to the context of the impacts of militarized conflict, the climate crisis, economic injustice and resulting insecurities and gender-based violence in your territory and others? Yes. Welcome, everyone. And I'm speaking to you from my ancestral homeland's Miigamagi, or the part of Miigamagi known as Nova Scotia. I'm so honored to be here, particularly with such powerful and strong women. It's such an honor to be here. Now, this is a loaded question to try to answer in just a few minutes. So I'm just going to just provide a few brief points because I think I'll end up repeating myself throughout this panel. But one of the things I was thinking about when I was thinking about this particular question, I think as Indigenous women, particularly for Indigenous women or as an Indigenous person, but particularly as women, this becomes a lifelong struggle. And I started as a little girl because I was very fortunate to have a grandmother who is very strong and she, despite that we were not allowed to run elections for chief and council, as we know here in Canada, she became chief in the middle 70s. And so from a, as a little girl, it was instilled in me, you know, how strong Indigenous women was, how strong we are, I suppose I should say, and what our struggles were. And so it was instilled in me that we had lost these vast access to these vast ancestral homelands. And so my struggle in terms of human rights, Indigenous rights, environmental rights has been throughout my whole life when I was thinking about this in one way or another. And all of these is a part of being Indigenous and I recall here in Nova Scotia, we have an African Nova Scotian activist, her name is Lynn Jones, and I remember her speaking to a group of young activists one time. And she said, you call it activism, I call it survival. And that really struck with me because activism sometimes is a privilege for some and for, but for many Indigenous women it isn't. And, but I would like to think that we're on a verge now of the resurgence of our, of who we are as a people and, and that we're resilient. So some of the issues that we've experienced here in Canada and particularly in from my own perspective as being an amygma woman is that you win some rights in the court system. And we've won treaty rights we know we have Indigenous rights we're now struggling with the universal declaration on the rights of Indigenous people and so forth. However, unfortunately, when you win those particular rights, even if you're successful in a struggle, there always seems to be this process of trying to assimilate Indigenous people into this very neoliberal and what I mean by that very very progressive economic development model at large scales like industrial models as a way to try to address rights or the inequities. And, and it's such a major contradiction for me personally because why would you want to be a part of a process that causes inequity to begin with. And then I will sum up by saying that, unfortunately, that model is being forced on Indigenous people here in Canada and around the world. And what we are experiencing with that model is extreme levels of violence. It exaggerates violence, not only against our environment because a lot of times a lot. But industrial models are not sustainable, a lot of the time, but also against the bodies of Indigenous women and two spirited LGBTQ plus people. And this has been proven and why this there's many reasons for this, but it seems that there's an escalation of the violence it's not it doesn't. It doesn't account for development doesn't account for all of the violence but a great proportion of the violence against the land against the waters and against bodies is attributed to these unsustainable forms of development, particularly in the resource and industry, and a lot of this has to do how our national economies are tied into the global economies and I say global, because this is happens here but as I will probably elaborate later on, we, and my colleagues and the panelists here well is that we struggled here with Canadian companies, particularly mining companies but in other sectors to and the atrocities that they commit and the violence that they commit in other parts of the world. And so they're really interlinked. And for me, this struggle is multi scalier on multi scales from the local rate up to the global. So all of my life. I've been struggling to secure access to our ancestral homelands for food and water livelihood, and even more so to protect them. I've experienced with treaty fishing rights fishing issues access to water. A lot of environmental issues that is caused by industrial development pollution and so forth. And more recently, I have found myself in the role of trying to facilitate or open up spaces so that indigenous women can have a voice. And so that's basically my experience. A bird's eye view a very quick view into that. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for sharing that with us. We will now move to our next speaker. Shantel will be introduced to us by radio. Thank you for your intervention on the importance of being indigenous. You gave us different examples of sustainable development. And now we are going to speak about the Republic Democratic Republic of Congo. Thank you. Our first question is, could you speak about the environment exploitation in the Democratic Republic of Congo? Could you tell us about this catastrophe? The interpreter excuses about the quality of the audio was very weak. I'm very glad to be with you tonight and to participate once more to these meetings. I understood well the question of Radia. Radia wanted to say, how do we have degradation in our environment after climate perturbations and why are women participating less in the decision making in climate action? Was it the question? Yes, this was the question. I was wondering if you could speak about the climate action in the RC and about the mine exploitation. And I wanted you to give us a perspective on women, how they're involved in this and what's their condition. Thank you. As we all know, global warming has direct consequences globally. And DRC hasn't been spared. And I'm actually currently speaking from the eastern part of DRC. I wanted to tell you that global warming also has consequences. And these consequences have as an origin, deforestation. This is to say that the excessive cutting of trees by foreign companies don't respect the right of indigenous people and degrade the environment. Because when these mine exploiters do this industrially, they throw acids and other chemicals that they use to clean the minerals in the environment. So they waste water currents. And when these waste is in water flows, when it rains, these chemicals get into our fields, the fields of our humble citizens and these fields are 90% exploited by women. And this makes women even poorer. A woman that lives out of her work in the field cannot make her family eat because there are toxic waste in the field. Anything else is also important to mention that is a product of global warming, that is to say the mismanagement of chemicals, chemical waste. I would say that there is also an effect of the bat mismanagement of electrical appliances waste. And also the problem of packaging and the tins that are not degradable. There are also the backs, everything we buy in the supermarket, everything we use, even though if we put them in a bag so that the waste disposal companies take them. There is nowhere where they can put this, dispose this waste so that it can be disposed properly. And so this means that all the bottles of water, of juice, of grenadine, of whatever bottle we're talking about these bottles end up in the river. And I also talk about the lake here in Sikivu. Kivuki Lake is very polluted by these bottles right now. Many bottles are in the lake. And actually fish use these bottles and this also entails a lowering of fish so fishermen earn less. And this causes a lot of famine. So the fact that the water, the water is polluted. And I talk about this and I observed the same situation of bottles other elsewhere in Africa also was in Sudan last year and I also saw that these bottles I don't know whether you have bottles polluting in northern Africa but I saw them in Sudan as well. And bottles are polluting the rivers and this diminishes the fish production. Another element that I wanted to mention is the fact that seasons are not well defined anymore. I don't know whether it's a rain season or a dry season. We don't know anymore when to harvest, when to... So in February for instance, we had a small season of drought. The interpreter apologizes but the connection is very bad. And sometimes we also saw containers polluting. I think we lost Shondal. We're going to reach her out later. Thank you for this speech Shondal. She spoke about the impact of climate change in DRC speaking about the river and the waste in the river and its impact on the economics. Thank you. We're going to move on to Natalia and she is in Guatemala. We're going to wait a few minutes or a few seconds for Natalia to turn on her camera. Good afternoon. Good evening to everyone. Thank you Natalia for joining us today. It's always an honor to be able to collaborate with you and to learn from everything that you share with us in terms of your wisdom and your experiences. You have participated in social movements for more than 30 years as a defender of human rights and land defender in order to build peace that includes indigenous people and women's perspectives in Guatemala. Now thinking about that experience, could you please speak to us about how the militarized conflict, the climate crisis, and the economic precarity not only contribute to gender violence but also intensify that violence. Thank you so much Gabriela. Thank you for the introduction. And thank you also for inviting me to participate in this panel. And so as I already said, these topics are very complex. For many years, there have been wars throughout the world as a result of economic interests. And currently we're seeing an increased militarization in our territory. And this is closely connected to the global economy, mining companies, hydro dams, and other sources of exploitation. Defending our people, defending our territory is one of our priorities. It's defending life itself. Defending, for example, human rights, defending life. And here we're referring to all of life, because human beings need air, water, nature, and all of biodiversity that is part of mother nature. Defending our environment has also led to the criminalization of members of our community, including women. We've also seen the militarization of our territories and our communities. And their goal is to control and to half power. And they work closely with these transnational companies to exercise that power over our communities. We've also seen, for example, abuse and sexual violence against women. Our fight to defend land, territory, and life is fundamental for us. We want to defend and protect life and rights, but not only human rights, but also nature's rights, because that's what gives us life. We're inspired by four elements that give us life. Air, water, fire, and land. Everything is connected, and it all gives us life. Our perspective of mother nature and of territory is very inclusive and very broad. We've seen increased militarization in our territories. Women are men, are criminalized for their work defending life. It's also the issue of climate change. Indigenous communities have taken care of nature. We're guardians of mother nature. Indigenous communities usually live in rural areas or in mountains. It's our life. The impact of climate change affects us much more directly because we live in rural areas. We experience natural disasters, flooding, and all the different consequences of climate change. That's something that concerns me deeply. When we look at the statistics, more than 80% of the victims of climate change are women. And the destruction perpetrated by transnational companies, they create a lot of pollution. On one hand, we're protecting and defending our territory, but at the same time, these transnational companies are creating pollution and contributing to climate change. But at the end of the day, we're the ones who are defending and protecting, fighting for our territory and who are protecting mother nature. And we're the ones who suffer the greatest impacts of climate change. This is a great challenge that we face that the Indigenous communities face to protect and defend life in our territories. Thank you so much, Nathie. Thank you for your comments. And it's clear there's a question that comes up for me when I listen to your response. What is peace in this context of extractive industries that pollute territories? Who is the coordinator of the International Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self-Determination and Liberation, which is based out of the Philippines? Her interventions were pre-recorded due to the time difference. So we will be watching a video now. Take it away, Jane. Thank you. Thank you for joining us. And it's such an honor to have you here all the way from the Philippines. And I guess the first question is kind of around the overall context regarding these impacts, the nexus of the impacts of climate, climate crisis and peace and security and gender equality. So from your extensive experience as a peace builder, a human rights defender, land defender, environmental activist, what are the intersecting impacts of militarized conflict, climate crisis and economic justice from your experience and the resulting insecurity and gender-based violence in the Philippines and the communities you work with? Thank you, Rachel. But happy International Working Women's Day to you and to all of our participants in this side event in this workshop. Of course, thank you to Kairus and all the organizers for inviting me to be part of this forum. You know, Rachel, I've been an activist since I was in high school, as young as that, I was exposed to some realities in the region at the time, which was still under martial law. And then, of course, later on in the university, I became more active in the youth and students organization. And when I graduated, I joined the Pardillera People's Alliance, which is a regional organization of indigenous peoples here in the Pardillera in the Philippines. And I've worked specifically in providing education and training for community and peoples organization. Later on, I would further develop that capacity by providing, you know, paralegal and human rights services. So in that kind of work, I traveled in many of the far flung villages in the region and of course also in other regions in the country. And then now, with my current position as global coordinator, I also had the opportunity to visit many indigenous communities in different parts of the world. I've been to Burma, I mean, even in these so-called conflict areas. And I've noticed many things that are similar. One, I have seen, I have also felt what we call the destruction of the climate, of the environment, I mean. And of course, be what we call as some climate change. Things I know, I have seen like in the province where I come from, the frequency of forest fires, the growing lack of water for drinking, for domestic and agricultural use. And this has increased the burden of women where in many of us are responsible in providing food on the table of our families. And at the same time, it has also doubled the burden in terms of our role in agricultural production, which is the main livelihood of indigenous women. And in all of this also, I've seen that much of these climate issues or what we call these concerns that indigenous peoples and indigenous women are facing would revolve around the issue of land, the increasing displacement brought about by large-scale mining and energy projects, the continuing expansion of commercial monocrop production, and then of course now the growing land use conversion for infrastructure and real estate development. So these have all affected women in the terms of they are also displaced together with their families from their ancestral lands and the traditional lands. Then as I mentioned, it has doubled the burden. Third, when they are displaced, they are forced to move to probably the town centers and the cities where in the discrimination that we feel brought about by our indigeneity is probably double. And then when we fight or protest these destructive projects, we are what you call is faced in a higher risk position. We're in, if we have seen experiences of indigenous women getting arrested because of Trump upcharges, and there are no specific what you call these facilities that would separate women detainees from men detainees. So we are as women ourselves and probably because of the lack of understanding or knowledge of how the judicial system works, we are put in a position wherein we are either forced to compromise our rights and even our welfare in that position. In the case of indigenous peoples in situations of protests, most of our communities are militarized, and that puts again another additional burden, additional risk for indigenous women in terms of rape, sexual violence, sexual assault, and other forms of violations or violence against women by virtue of our gender. But being indigenous itself, it makes it double or triple. So like many I think would mention, as indigenous women, we suffer or experience violations or issues brought about by us being women. But this is also coupled with issues that are particular with us because we are indigenous. So the issues of discrimination, the issues of neglect. So I think these are the things that I have seen through the years. And I myself, I have experienced that in the case of the Philippines were in not only is my organizations that I'm affiliated with red tag or vilified or declared as persona ng grata because of this involvement. And in 2018 I was part of the list that were in the Department of Justice of the Philippine government filed a petition to declare us as terrorists. That's why at the time up to now we have launched a campaign that human rights activists are not terrorists. And it's also part of a campaign to stop the criminalization of dissent or resistance or the assertion of our rights as indigenous people and of course as women. Thank you very much for this contribution about women and their rights. Thank you very much our panelists to talk about the consequences of minor extraction on their territories. Now we go back to Congo and we have a question up for Shantala. What is your experience as a peace builder as woman. But what is the impact of women traditional women in Congo also for the condomization in the context of the reduction of climate change and to prevent catastrophes. Thank you very much Shantala. Yes please go ahead. Thank you very much. If I have to talk about about my experience as a defender for women's rights. What I what I can say is that I've been working in the battle against climate change and climate mitigation. I did some activities and where this were centered on human and women education. And these activities where we're all about awareness and and civilization about women and how we can protect the environment and how we can combat climate change. And these activities has taught us a lot of things but we have also specific points that are focused on women because we have we can define the women as women. And we also thought about the consequences about climate changes on women and these sessions of awareness. We are doing it in different classrooms during also some radio radio programs about also the effects of the forestation. We are bringing the population to plant new trees but also we are also talking about waste management and how we can manage plastic in order to reduce pollution. And in the house who is in charge of taking the waste and go and dispose them we tried to find and the population and talk with them. We were disposing the waste, but this was a source of clinics in the different villages and we had some problems with the public authorities. And the authorities and also the land owners were engaged. We asked also to the authorities to not allow the selling of parcels. Selling parcels that can prevent that kind of helpful normally with the construction. We have a lot of issues with the services. We have some authorities that suspended it. And this is all regards public services. And we always cut trees and we build houses. But it's not sustainable because we cut the trees and we built some house that were not in the right place. And then they fell out. We are trying to remember to the population that we need always to plant trees without trees we don't have any life. We done our in our work with the Ministry of Justice. We are trying to apply low in our activities. We have the engagement of the community of course, and these women. We gave them a lot of information. To self-aware them. Interpreter excuses self but there are some connections problem. And the plant. So the big pieces can be the good fertilizers. So we asked not to throw away the waste coming from the food. Of course not the plastic. If it wasn't consumed in the family, we can put it in an apartment of our house in a basin. And then we throw all the ways. So for example the rest of the vegetables but also the meat what we didn't eat. And we keep them and this waste will be mixed in a compass and these will be mixed with the pigs pieces in order to help the soil as fertilizer. This is what we are doing to fight climate change. We are also working with the authorities and show them them that is that since a lot of people cut the trees we don't have any more trees and all the roads are without trees. We have a lot of rains. A lot of women come to the city in order to sell their vegetables. And she cannot participate anymore to the life of the family. And if I if I have to talk about the impacts about on women and young girls. The women is always considered as a serious beat. She has always to be under a man. And she has always to be with a boy that would be her guardian and the woman in order to fight climate change. And also climate perturbation. The women woman doesn't have any trees. So it's the man that is the property of the tree. And also he's the owner. But it's the number but it's the it's the it's the it's the man. It's it's her maybe the father or brother that owns the tree but it's not the women itself. And this is the the culture. And then she cannot cut the trees as well. Because the woman is not the owner of the trees but it's the man that cut the tree. And the woman cannot say anything. Because we always say that she cannot she cannot compare with the man she never grows up. And these themes are in order to that these women will stop the first station. We are in front of a big problem if the women will stop the first station. This will not be long lasting. Because we don't have any gas at home for preparing like for example the food. And a lot of people that in the we use the wood to prepare and to warm our food. And we ask ourselves that women has some difficulty. She's not the owner of the tree. And she can say she has to protect the environment that man. She he says that he cuts the tree in order to gain some money. So we have some issues between men and women. Because the man is the manager is the owner. He is the producer of the wood. At this point the women she's poor she doesn't have any trees and she has some difficulties. And she cannot say that she doesn't want that the trees will be cut. She has issues in expressing herself. Thank you very much Chantal. Thank you very much for your intervention. I think yours was very interesting and how your tradition is implied. Thank you very much Radia. Thank you. Well thank you Radia. Very insightful. So I would like to welcome again Dr. Pick too. And ask like in many contexts gender based violence is directed with impunity against women. Women human rights defenders and environmental defenders to silence and also to deter them. And some of the work that you have done has highlighted that the indigenous world view is often neglected. It's excluded and often distorted as well. Can you share with us some of your work and the linkages between the climate crisis agenda based violence on women and indigenous women in particular. And I don't know where to start with any of that because it's just so complex and so heavy but one of the things I've noticed here in Canada so called Canada is that as some of our previous speakers have have also spoken about is that women, particularly indigenous women have been taken the front, taken the lead in trying to protect sources of food and water and basically their land and this extends to the waters as well. And I often ask why that is. Because we have like 400 to 500 years of colonialism here and it's and we have contemporary forms of colonialism. And we have the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls that are at great rates that's happening across this country. Why are they going this and why are they going murdered and as I said earlier that some of this has been attributed to the way that land is being exploited and particularly for corporate corporate needs the profit sector, and particularly the resource extraction all kinds of resource extraction including mining and the extraction of fish the extraction and so forth. And though we have what we call here in Canada Aboriginal and treaty rights, though those rights are supposed to be protected under the Constitution. So in my case for Megamogui of the peace and friendship treaties where there is never no land, given up, we were supposed to be able to fish to hunt and gather as usual. And of course that never happened. And though we would though we win these rights, this hyper intensive extractive industry seems to supersede those rights and move forward at the expense of environmental sustainability. This is the course of our indigenous survival. And so why is that happening and particularly in Canada when we have a duty to consult indigenous people there's a legal duty to consult indigenous people. When that happens, indigenous women are left out of that consultation process that usually happens from the very top to the leadership. And so my work now is about how do we include indigenous women and to spirit it and LGBTQ plus people, how do we include them how are they consulted. And my work being done and other communities of how do we have community based consultation, because as it is now that as it stands now, they are not consulted, and it will stop at the leadership, and the leadership is also bound by corporate law to protect the confidentiality there's no mechanism in this duty to consult to consult your own people. So subsequently what happens is when women go to defend their land and territories against what usually is unsustainable development or there's a risk to the fish or there's a risk to polluting the rivers and so forth. So the first to be criminalized as some of my co panelists have alluded to. In this country, the corporate law through the terms of injunctions will stop and violently remove women from trying to protect their land and water at all costs to, to let that development to go ahead. We've seen it we've seen it in British Columbia against the pipelines we have seen this throughout history. Here in my own territory, there were three humble, beautiful me my grandmothers, they were arrested. And so my question is, number one, how do we create a space for those women to have a voice. Question number two, why or when did corporate law supersede fundamental basic human rights and indigenous law. Why, why does development move forward at no matter no what costs that displaces people not just indigenous people we see the homeless and so forth. And so this is what my work now centers on. It's all interconnected to climate change in in big ways, particularly when we are chained to a global economy that is trying to operate as it always has done. And I'll leave it there because when we talk about climate change and we talk about the global economy. We're all tied to that. And, you know, I think we should take a deeper analytical lens, even to the war that's happening in Ukraine. What's that all about. Let's look in what about all of the wars that are happening throughout the, you know, throughout the, the globe around the globe, and a lot of it is tied to these economy at the expense of fundamental basic human rights and particularly the rights of indigenous people and indigenous women and to spirit it. What we call to spirit it here in Canada and LGBTQ plus people. So I'll just leave it there thanks. Thank you very and I think the next question for for for for Natty will kind of also link well with with your intervention. So, Natty, para la segunda ronda. And that the for the next question the question is focus more on the issues that women face in your territory. So in terms of your experience. What has the defense life territory meant for women. And if you can add to this, what would be the necessary changes to improve the women's living conditions. Thank you. Thank you for the question. Guatemala the defense of land and territory for women has meant a lack of security. This can be as a result of the presence of military members or police national police original police. Women are subject to rape to harassment and the women who have been at the front lines of the fight for life and for nature have had to go into exile and that breaks down not only the community but families as well. It's a very complex and complicated situation. And it's a very painful situation. For example when there's flooding or where there are landslides. Those things are all connected it's all part of climate change. I previously mentioned it affects our territories more than others and it's women who are often in the home. So if there is a landslide. They're at greater risk and women in our society are assigned certain roles and this puts them even greater risk. What we've seen in terms of the work I do with women in the community is that we urgently need greater participation on the part of women. We need women to be able to participate in the decision making process. Society has imposed certain roles on women, but also women can sometimes internalize those assigned roles. So we think that we're not capable of learning other things that only men can do certain things for example learning how to swim. Going out of the house, going to social gatherings or taking certain decisions or leadership roles in the community. So that's an obstacle that we've been facing, but it's urgent for women to participate in the decision making process. And that will help to change the situation that women are experiencing for example, equity and equality. It will help to change and improve our participation and in terms of decision making. And as women we need to create those conditions because it's not something that they're going to give us we need to create the conditions of equality. That's what women need. We also need to empower women need to empower ourselves. And we also need to work with children from a very early age, so that we can analyze a variety of situations. So for example, education that treats girls and boys in an equal way to have a holistic view of education that doesn't focus on assigned roles for men and women. And those become obstacles for us if we can take into account our rights. If we can begin to participate, and if we can have a different mentality that will help to change our current the current conditions that we live in. We need to eliminate those obstacles we need to overcome those obstacles that have been imposed on us, as well as the obstacles that are imagined that, for example, not a capitalistic system has imposed on us. Those are the obstacles that we need to face in our day today. And also looking at the details of how this plays out in our daily lives, we need to break down the fears that we have. For example, the fear of what will people say if I participate because it's something new. It's different. And so society looks at it negatively. So where I currently live, we want to achieve parity so equality equal representation and participation in social structures and organizations within the community. And so we want more women to become involved in the drinking water community and the environmental community that addresses issues with pollution. We want to see greater participation of women in these committees, but in order to do that, we need to increase awareness amongst the men so that they are a better understanding. Because here in our community, it's the women who go and plant vegetables. We're working in the fields who are working with maize and corn. So we need to have greater understanding on the part of men and women also have to overcome those assigned roles to go beyond the family and to be active within the community. It's essential for us for women to take on that responsibility and at the time overcome that fear and overcome that fear need a lot of training, education, awareness and support. And we'll only be able to achieve that if we're able to participate in different kinds of spaces. We need to empower women. That's a very important part of the process and as I previously mentioned, we also need to be part of the decision making process that's the only way that we can change those social roles that have been imposed on us so that we can see each other as human beings. See these responsibilities as shared responsibilities, not just a man and a woman in their roles in the family, but also in the community. We are just as responsible for our lives. And here I'm not referring only to human beings. I'm also thinking about nature, how we take care of the environment and nature. That way we can have clean air, pure air, clean water if we're able to be aware of our responsibility to take care of mother nature. So there's a need for everyone to see that they have a responsibility that we have a responsibility. My responsibility is to take care of the nature around me. It's also important to be able to name those large companies and extractive industries that are polluting and destroying nature. And how I said this in the previous response in the case of Guatemala, the indigenous communities are the ones that are suffering the most as a result of climate change. And therefore we need to continue fighting. And we need to continue working with education with young children so that young girls can grow up with that awareness of equality and equity in order to have a better future. And in order to help the future generations. The use of our ancestors extends out for me when they say that we're currently living the results of the actions of our ancestors, actions that they took hundreds of years ago so right now motivates me as to fight for future generations and I'll stop there for now. Thank you so much. Not the thank you for that reminder that we need to take care of each other, and that we all have the responsibility. And it, it linked to what Sherry is saying it's women need to be part of the decision making processes. What are some of the strategies that you've you've you've seen and you've you've experienced and and you, you, you've worked on with indigenous women strategies to address these impacts. One is really, I've always believed that when we speak of education awareness building capacity development. This is something that should be continuous. It's not a one one time big time thing. So I think one of the very important strategy is the continuing capacity development for indigenous peoples in their communities and especially for indigenous women. So when we speak of capacity building this would include really understanding. I mean what are our rights as indigenous peoples what are our rights as indigenous, as indigenous women, what are the mechanisms available for us to be able to access justice or to be able to to bring out our thoughts in relation to certain activities or projects that government would bring into our communities. And of course capacity development also include, you know, enhancing our skills in terms of being leaders ourselves being how do we articulate our issues to be able to to to gather the support or understanding of the wider public on how do we deal with government officials. How do we manage our organizations and these are things that I think is very important. Of course two is still many indigenous peoples are either organized as communities and in many occasions or in many instances they also form their own organizations, you know, as women as youth as elders. We should still continue such organizing and building and strengthening our organizations and our communities. And that would also include not only building it and making it stronger, but we should be able also to expand and reach out to other communities and other organizations, not only indigenous peoples, but also other organizations who can advocate, you know, for our issues who could advocate for a better situation. And I think the third one would be depending probably on how strong, how big, and the level of support that we get from from others would be the continuing actions that we should be able to do. So there's, I mean, there's many forms that we can do ranging from probably doing direct actions to also engaging our government through existing mechanisms. And there's also a wide range of how do we engage these many intergovernmental processes, not only with the UN, but probably also looking into mechanisms where we are able to engage with those that provide the financing for all of these development projects that we are confronted with in our communities. And of course part of the reaching out will be the fourth one will be how do we build solidarity, you know, mutual support, how do we build partnerships, how do we build cooperations, not only among indigenous peoples, but with other sections of society. And this might probably also include working with engaging with governments that are, what do we say, supportive or champions for indigenous peoples' rights, and maybe also to a certain extent working with private sector who are genuinely espousing or practicing not only at the minimum, corporate social responsibilities, and those that are willing to work with us. I think these are strategies that we have been employing for several years, several decades now, and it has proven to be effective, and depending probably on our experience, this can be further enhanced. And it can also, in the case of indigenous peoples with the, I think, a strategy that has worked in is how do we inter, what's the term, I'm thinking in Tagalog, I mean, our spirituality, our indigenous practices and traditions, how are these put into use, you know, in a situation where in we are confronted like, you know, pick dance and all of this. So, probably a very good experience in our case here in the Philippines is the role of the elders, and I think that's also same with other indigenous peoples, like probably even the first nations in Canada or the US. The elders played a very important role in unifying the community in relation to a common issue that we are facing in building a better understanding of the issues and how do we fight to protect or assert our rights as indigenous peoples. I mean, I think those are proven strategies that we have employed through the years. At the beginning you were talking a bit about a campaign around us, around fighting for our future. And I wondered if you've talked a little bit about that and how that employs these different strategies and, you know, yes, thank you Rachel. Before I forget, I just remembered that I think one of the particularities of indigenous peoples as a matter of strategy is building consensus, building immunity. And I have observed, you know, in my experience as an indigenous activist that really when it comes to indigenous peoples, it really takes time, you know. And I've seen that it can have, it's not a one time big time thing, like it involves, you know, going back to the communities every now and then to explain and get their unity. And I've seen also elders sit down until the wee hours of the day to, you know, to bring out and discuss all of these issues. I think that that's one strategy that really we can work with. I mean dealing with all of these issues that we are confronted with the importance of unity and consensus building. So, going back to your question, the international indigenous peoples movement for self determination and liberation, which was founded in way back in 2010, relatively we are a new organization. And for this year, we have launched what we call a a year long campaign and probably more than a year, and we call it the future and fight for our future. This involves answering the question, not only what is the future we want, but it goes beyond that, what is the future that we are fighting for. Because in reality, the things that we want, the things that we aspire for, I mean, does that fall from the ground? So, handed to us on a silver platter or handed a spoon fed to us by by governments by private sector by corporations, and it is something that we need to assert. It is something that we need to fight for. So this, the fighting for fight for our future is also a campaign where it will allow us indigenous peoples indigenous women indigenous youth to be able to articulate the alternative that we want. An alternative that is respective of diversity, an alternative that is respective of our rights, an alternative that will also enhance the participation of indigenous peoples in wider society. It is an alternative that would bring about genuine development, not only for indigenous peoples, but also for the state or the country that we find ourselves in. So it will answer, try to answer four elements of the future that we are fighting for. One, one is in relation to fight for our lands, and this would include fighting for the right to self determination at the minimum fighting for our right to free prior informed consent for any activity that is done in our communities or lands or any activity that would impact on us. Two is fighting for our planet. And this would include fighting for the environment. Three will be fighting for our health. And a very important aspect of this will be fighting for social services that that we deserve know that because despite our contribution to national wealth because of the extraction of resources for our lands and territories, we remain to be socially neglected in terms of education in terms of health and other social services. And of course the fourth will be fighting for our rights, and this would include rights not only indigenous peoples but freedoms also as human beings. So if we are able to respond to this, we hope that this fighting for our future would lead to a self determined and sustainable society wherein we are able to enjoy a healthy, free and just society for indigenous peoples and other peoples in the world. So that's our campaign. We need to fight for our future. Thanks to our panelists. There's a lot to say. My head is kind of spinning because there's so many things that our panelists have talked about. And for this, going into this last round of discussions, our panelists have touched on issues such as the interconnected nature of local communities to air to land to water and fire. The lack of control over territories exploitation of land in resource extraction and the complacency of justice systems and the performative nature of power systems in justifying the minimal inclusiveness of women. But also how women have taken the lead in protecting their territories and breaking barriers to ensure, you know, securing just economic conditions for themselves, not only for themselves but also for their communities. So for this last round of questions, I will ask the panel is sort of a two part question as we wind down and I will begin with Natalia. Just to talk about how, you know, indigenous and Afro descendant women, they ground themselves in both individual and with the collective, and their consideration of traditional knowledge is a source of power. But this strategies and this aspect are however often overlooked. What are some good practices or strategies that you can share with us that would further strengthen indigenous women's capacity in Guatemala to identify to identify for their collective rights and if you have any recommendations that you can share with us for further Thank you for the question. I think there are several strategies that can be implemented. One strategy is to accompany women in the process of understanding and getting to know what their rights are. And as far as they are familiar with what their rights are they can defend those rights. However, to do that we need to create the right conditions. Women have certain societal roles for example playing at home with charge of the food. And there's a series of chores that we have to do but we need to create conditions so that women are able to go to meetings and to gatherings if they're not able to go to these meetings and gatherings and they won't be able to learn about their rights. For example, those workshops or meetings have to take place at a time when women can participate. The problem is that when women fight and when they're in the front lines. But they're often at the front lines but you often they don't have time to participate in meetings or workshops. It's also another strategy is for women to be able to identify the kind of violence perpetrated against them. That will help women to be able to defend their rights as well. Another strategy is to create public policies that support the conditions that enable women to participate in a variety of spaces for example in municipal, regional and national spaces. We need the participation of women and we need women to be involved in decision making. We also need men to listen to women and to really consider what women are saying it would be useless for women to participate if men are not listening and considering what women are saying. And therefore we also need to create those conditions so that men are listening to women's proposals. Another strategy is to create awareness about laws that protect women and to help women learn about the laws that punish those who commit violence against women. Another strategy is to create and promote laws that strengthen women's rights. In Guatemala, we've suffered very serious things in attacks for example, March 8 when 42 girls were murdered. And this year, March 8, a law was approved or a bill was approved by the Congress. And it's a bill that criminalizes women in cases of involuntary abortion. So on March 8 women were already suffering from the pain for them murder of the girls of the girls and on top of that they were punished by the state of the passing of this bill. I would say as women we need to be stronger in order to defend our rights. And in a lot of circumstances it's the state that limits and reduces our rights as women and as women we need to become stronger through her strategies and not only through our capacities but also through our organizations in order to continue defending our rights. Another strategy is to overcome obstacles and to create awareness amongst the population in general. Awareness about the impacts on mother nature and on the environment in order to improve our well-being. There are a lot of tasks and a lot of things that need to be done in order to create a situation where we can prosper and thrive, not only for women but for everyone. We need to look for a better future for women and for future generations as well as for our biodiversity. So the government needs to also work with children so that children can become familiar with their rights and so that the youth are aware of their rights of what they need in order to thrive. And for there to be no more discrimination gender discrimination or discrimination against indigenous communities. We need governments to put forth public policies that enable the participation of women. We also need awareness about the risks that women face in society. So that way we can have, there can be women who experience a life free of violence, who have access to safety, and it's women's lives that are most at risk. Something I think about is how countries like in Guatemala, how in our fight, how we can work and collaborate and support each other, come together in solidarity with other countries, with Canada for example, how we can join hands in order to attain justice, to fight for women's rights, to achieve equality, well-being, and to protect the lives of future generations and to protect the life of our mother nature, which gives us life. So another strategy is to join forces and support each other in our work against climate change and the climate crisis. We can also, as women, we can work together, we can work together to create change, we can create change in our contexts, in our communities, we can fight for nature, and we can also fight for peace. And we would like to live a life without violence, we would like to live a life of equality, and I hope that we can achieve it by implementing different strategies, and that's why exchanges are so important. Or events like today's are important because it can help us to move forward with our strategies to defend life and to defend mother nature. Thank you. Thank you so much, Natalia. I'm glad that you mentioned that empowerment cannot be stressed enough. And the collaborations between countries, between communities, and also the mention of a justice system that, you know, it grudgingly gives with one hand and takes away with the other. So I'd like to move now to Dr. Piktu, you know, as follow up talking about empowerment of women. This is linked to the arts, to the territory to natural resources. But, you know, you also raised important questions about how about why the right to life, the rights to protect territory is trumped over by capitalism is met with criminalization and the voices of women and indigenous communities is ignored. So I know that asking about strategies and how to address these challenges is loaded. But I'm just wondering if you can share a little bit about your perspectives on this and some of your recommendations as well. Thank you. Thank you so much Jane. Yes, I was looking at this question and you know, the resilience of indigenous women in struggle is just to be applauded. And what you know as a strategy as difficult as it is, I think we have to strive for truth. We have to strive for the reality. And I've been very fortunate to work with Kyros in this respect. For instance, there was two sets of, there's two groups of grandmothers here in the east. The Wallistic, the beautiful river people as they refer to themselves, were fighting against a mine in their ancestral territories and there is the MiG Mod grandmothers who is fighting against Alton, a company called Alton gas, and without getting into all the details of it. In both cases there was environmental concerns and even the environmental assessments. I, with Kyros we help to create a space for those women to tell their stories. And you will find this on the Mother Earth resource extraction website, the stories of courage. And furthermore, we've been working with Kyros to make those international linkages of what some of my co-panelists have talked about. And out of those we've learned so much even about, particularly about Canadian mining companies, the ones that we're fighting here and I did see a note earlier about the concern about what we call the Ring of Fire in Northern Ontario, which is a deep concern. We have First Nations communities without access to safe drinking water, and yet there's this hyper intensive resource extraction industry taking place in what they call this Ring of Fire. And so the work needs to continue to connect those stories. And why I say that as a strategy is because we need the counter narrative but not just the counter narrative that I find that within the process of struggle, there's so much resurgence of our Indigenous ways of knowing and particularly the roles that Indigenous women play and to spirited people as well. And that resurgence of that, and why is that so important is because from what I can gather, though there's different contexts, they offer life. They offer a very balanced life of living without destroying the earth that really supports those ecosystems that in turn supports the water and support our sources of food. So creating space and continuing on with the struggle and I know in some countries this is a courageous move because we've lost so many Indigenous women activists and so forth. Second to kind of echo some of Beverly's concerns about the law and human rights and so forth. I think we have to really struggle to highlight some of these injustices and to show just how the corporate world is up here, and the rights and Indigenous rights are down here. There's this hierarchy. And, and why is that it's not a matter of competing rights, it's just competing rights, it's a matter of one set of rights that are that are privileged at the expense of others, not to mention the rights of mother earth herself. A third area that I'm trying to work on is this notion here in Canada that the government use of gender based analysis. And unfortunately, in a lot of cases gender based analysis just becomes a check mark for equality, not necessarily equity and I know many of you know what I mean by that. And I'm very concerned why why does this concern me because I see it starting to pop up in the federal government's mandates and regarding Indigenous people will do a gender based analysis and everything will be okay. Well, what is also happening we have the missing and murdered Indigenous women's final inquiry report and I do believe that Rachel put a link in the chat to that. I have 231 recommendations for a consents concise or more condensed view. I would recommend looking at the, the executive summary or the call or the, the calls to justice. And that was a I was a little bit hesitancy because they called for social economic impact assessments. I'm a little bit worried about that because where's the environmental assessment in that. And is this will this be an attempt to try to include women in that neoliberal or capitalist paradigm as opposed to transforming it. I'm a little bit concerned. So, I'm hoping to to engage with Indigenous women and try to figure out how can we do a gender based analysis from our perspective from an Indigenous perspective, and then stage two, how can that influence the decision processes. And in my capacity as his honorary district chief I've been I've been hinting at the leadership that this is the work that I'm hoping to do and I'm starting to see some positive movement. And the last thing what I will say is that is with these sustainable development goals that we need to unpack them. And what do they really mean there's so many contradictions with the sustainable development goals. And, for example, we have the big blue economy now which pertains to oceans does that translate into sustainable development again or is that just another mechanism to exploit and I can't see how you can exploit from the ocean. So we really look at those and particularly SDG five when we talk about oh we're going to include women we're going to include gender to make sure that we include SDG five. Those are some amongst many and I do see Jane put her photo on so I know we're running out of time. But those are some of the more concrete things that I can think of. So thank you. Thank you so much, Dr picked to I wish we had more time. You know, because this are really, really important issues that you raise. And there's a lot to unpack there, like you mentioned, I will now go next to Beverly's last comments on the video. I don't know how lost connection with Chantel but if we're able to reconnect again, perhaps she will have some time to share her last comments, but now over to Beverly. So I guess the last question is really around sort of advocacy and action and recommendations, you would like us to bring forward to the international community and to the Canadian government. In order to support these strategies in order to address some of these impacts that you talked about. I think in terms of recommendations, one, you know, I still remember Rachel the first time I was in Canada, I think that was through your invitation where we had this meeting on women and mining. And I think at the time, the continuing lobby for a, what do you call this a Canada onwards person for responsible for mining. And that was a good campaign. And I think that we were able to get that unfortunately, in terms of the role of the onwards person has much been watered down. So our call for the Canadian government is really to look into the, what they call this giving more teeth on the role of the onwards person because there are many Canadian mines operating in indigenous people's territories. Not only here in Asia, but also in different parts of the world. So a mechanism where we are able to bring out our grievances, our experiences as far as the operations of Canadian minis. And being able to investigate allegations of human rights abuses, including free violation of free prior and for consent would be a very good way of bringing out your so called integrity and support for indigenous peoples and the environment. We have also been deployed this part and being supportive of the continuing campaign of our brothers and sisters first nations on the missing murdered indigenous women, disappeared indigenous women and girls and I understand that a report has been brought out in relation to this and the several more than 200 recommendations have been put forward in this so called calls for justice. I hope the Canadian government would seriously look into these recommendations and implement these recommendations, especially looking into the core of the experience in terms of colonization, discrimination against the first nations being a root of all of this. Probably in terms of the wider public, we have recently concluded the conference of parties, 26 in Glasgow, Scotland, again several recommendations, several declarations came out and there was one specifically for indigenous peoples and local communities that promise providing resources for indigenous peoples. One, we look at this as a very good development, a recognition or a response to how many years of struggle for indigenous peoples but at the same time, we are also concerned that the funds might not go to indigenous peoples themselves and might probably even go to other formations or platforms that would promote so called community based and to all these natural based solutions but this basically greenwashing all of these destructive practices so we hope that these funds will go directly to indigenous communities for them to be able to manage and use and of course giving a special consideration for indigenous women who are more than more likely to be left out in all of these processes. Specifically for the Philippines, since for several years now, we have been lobbying the United Nations Human Rights Council to support an independent investigation on the human rights situation in the Philippines to look into not only drug related killings but all these cases especially of red tagging, political vilification, criminalization that has also led to the killing of activists or dissenters or those many of us also have been incarcerated, detained due to Trump up charges and many of the victims by this practice of criminalization are indigenous peoples so we hope that the Canadian government and of course all other members of the Human Rights Council will still support our call for a resolution to visit the Philippines and of course this is very important because on May we will be holding our national elections for in we are going to elect a new president and new members of the parliament and other local government officials. Maybe a last word, Rachel, you were mentioning a while ago about building back up better and I've come out with three points on this one will be definitely it will involve the full effective and meaningful participation of indigenous peoples and in our case not indigenous women because we really cannot build back better without indigenous peoples and indigenous women. We might be a minority in terms of population, we might be a minority in terms of political influence because of our status as discriminated people, but you know you can never have environmental or economic security as our team would say without our full effective and meaningful participation and two will be really when we speak of building back better we should be able to review what are the existing policies or principles that has to govern our economic, political and social, cultural relations and positions and I think in a situation of oppression, in a situation of repression, this cannot be. We have to review and look back into the implementation and operation of these neoliberal policies being brought about by big capitalist and imperialist countries and definitely we have seen that these policies that they are dictating on has not benefited much of the people but in fact has contributed to much of this climate and environmental destruction and third now we are in a situation where it's not only an issue of you know fighting over profits, we are now in a situation where in this big imperialist and capitalist countries are fighting in terms of influence and this has reached a situation where it's not only a simple war for profits but it's a war and we are seeing what's happening in Eastern Europe with the developments in Ukraine and Russia and of course in Asia we have also seen the flexing of China of its military might over the West Philippine Sea so in other words there's a great possibility that these contradictions would escalate into something like a war and it is a war where in majority of the people including indigenous peoples, the workers, the peasants, the farmers, the women and there's nothing to do with it. So it is in this point that when we also build back better we should be able to be put in the far from the issue of peace. So while it's true we are in a pandemic, it's a situation of health but when we speak also of building back better we should also be in a very important aspect of peace because we do not want a situation for in these wars between big countries, capitalist countries will further push us into poverty and marginalization. So, in the interest of time, I want to thank Shantel, Dr. Pigtu, Natalia and Beverly for being part of this discussion. I think that there was and there is a lot to build on a lot of learning and experiences that learning from the experiences that we have, the participation of women and security approaches and how these are linked to climate and the environment and recognizing the problems of militarization, extractive capitalist systems, the complacency of the justice sector, but also how we can challenge these systems to do better, to be better and be more supportive of the growing global models of gender justice, the eating climate, environmental and economic justice. I appreciate the active participation of participants. Thank you for being here for sharing your thoughts and asking your questions. Unfortunately, we do not have time to go into that but we'll definitely share this with the panelists and we will share their responses in the mail out after the workshop. I will now invite Rachel Warden to lead the last part of our workshop. Rachel. Hi everybody and thank you so much for that average discussion and thank you panelists for the recommendations and strategies and advocacy priorities moving forward. These must lead our work, they're integral to our work. And I mean, in the words of panelists, why are these strategies so important? Because they offer life and life in all forms. And they defend life and this is all types of life and they build back better and they build back better with peace and peace that includes the environment and includes other creatures, includes the planet. So we encourage everyone to take these strategies and recommendations and bring them forward to governments and internationally. I wanted to just take a minute to talk about an action that Congress is working on in Canada right now. And we are calling on the Canadian government to increase funding to women peace builders and by women peace builders, we mean the women on this panel and other women human rights defenders who are working to build sustainable inclusive equitable peace with environmental and economic justice. These are the women who are defending life and this is life, all life and peace building for all life and for the planet. So, specifically what we're calling on the government, what we're calling on the government to do is to increase overseas development assistance to reach its international standard by the year 2030. This includes increasing it this year, meeting international climate commitments, and ensuring that funding, this funding actually reaches these grassroots women's organizations and peace groups. I just want to take the last minute to thank everyone who participated in the workshop again. Thank you. Thank you to the panelists to Nati and Bev, Sherry and Chantel for your time for sharing your experiences and knowledge and expertise and for deepening our understanding of this nexus between peace security gender environment and climate justice for broadening our understanding of security, and grounding in your context and your experience. You showed her so clearly that this isn't a theoretical concept. It's discovered by policy makers and funders. It's what women build peace builders and defenders are living and working on right now. Thank you for defending life, all life and building peace real peace with climate justice. I want to thank the partnership team and my colleagues, Gabriella Jane Radia for all the work you do and your commitment to partnerships and and the program and advocacy led by partners and for facilitating this rich discussion. So shout out and thank you to Jane Carica for leading and hosting us and bringing us together with such skill and grace. Thanks for all the tech team and all the people behind the scenes translating. Thank you to the translators. Thank you to the volunteers and Kyra staff for all the work behind the scenes in this workshop. And thank you to all of you who came out. And from wherever you're connecting to from your various organizations and also governments and thank you for any representatives of the Canadian government who are here. Everyone for for your interest for your sport and continuing to fight for for life for life and to defend life and to support the work of women peace builders and land defenders and environmental defenders so thank you again for for being with us.