Stand with Women protecting land & environment
Make Double the Difference
Here are three ways you can take action today
1. Support Their Work – Donate
Women human rights defenders face escalating risks for defending land, culture, and community. Your donation helps PBI provide essential support: protective accompaniment, legal and advocacy assistance, emergency response, wellbeing resources, and international visibility for defenders and their organisations.
During this Big Give (2 - 9 December), your donation is doubled at no extra cost. Double the Impact!
2. Stay Connected – Subscribe for Updates
Stay informed about the situation facing defenders in Mexico, West Papua, and around the world. By subscribing, you’ll receive urgent alerts, stories from the field, event invitations, and opportunities to take meaningful action throughout the year.
3. Raise Your Voice – Write to Your MP
UK political engagement matters. By writing to your MP, you can help ensure parliamentarians understand the threats facing human rights and environmental defenders, and encourage stronger UK leadership on this issue.
We’ve drafted a short message you can personalise – it only takes a few minutes.
Thank you for joining us in solidarity with Indigenous women human rights defenders.
This week, defenders from Mexico and West Papua have travelled across the UK to share their experiences, meet allies, and raise visibility around the risks facing their communities.
Across these regions, and around the world, women defenders play a central role in protecting land, forests, rivers, and cultural identity. They document abuses, challenge powerful interests, support their communities, and lead movements for justice and environmental protection.
Women like Claudia Ignacio Álvarez, a community leader and advocate from Mexico, and a West Papuan Indigenous woman human rights defender, continue this work despite facing harassment, criminalisation, discriminatory policies, and serious threats to their safety.
Their presence in the UK is a vital opportunity:
to hear directly from frontline communities,
to understand the global patterns of violence and dispossession they confront, and
to build a stronger network of international solidarity, protection, and political pressure.
As they share their stories with parliamentarians, students, activists, civil society organisations, and the public, your support helps ensure that their voices are not only heard – but acted upon.
