So don’t bother comparing yourself to others. Compare yourself to prior versions of yourself. When you do, ask if you’ve gotten better. Are you stronger, kinder, and wiser than we were before?
RESOURCE GUIDE FOR MONITORING EXTRACTIVES FOR WOMEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS (WEHRDs)
This book is a resource guide written for community-based women environmental and human rights defenders (WEHRDs) who would like to investigate or monitor impending or actual mining operations in their own communities. This is to enable them to closely examine and document actual or potential impacts and human rights violations in their communities, with additional attention to women.
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Writer: Erika Rey-Saturay Contributing editors: Femy Pinto, Mynabel Pomarin, Vaishnavi Varadarajan
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