Instituto Alok supports ANMIGA, through its leader Célia Xakriabá, in actions to continuously strengthen the capacity for legal monitoring and the elaboration of legal and communication strategies for the positioning of indigenous women in the face of local, national and/or global demands, which may come violate their rights as indigenous women.
The National Articulation of Indigenous Women Warriors of Ancestrality (ANMIGA) is an articulation of Indigenous Women from all biomes of Brazil, with knowledge, traditions and struggles that add up and converge to guarantee the rights and life of indigenous peoples.
AMIGA’s legal capacity strengthening actions include:
- systematization of women’s demands to obtain qualified data for mobilizing partners;
- consolidation of the participation of original women in relevant meetings, enhancing and expanding network communication; and,
- ANMIGA action considering the six biomes.
Indigenous Women in Power
In March and April (2022), with the support of Instituto Alok, ANMIGA and partner entities held four articulation meetings that were attended by 120 indigenous women from the six Brazilian Biomes (Amazon, Cerrado, Atlantic Forest, Caatinga, Pampa and Pantanal).
This articulation resulted in the preparation of women to participate in the space of power, presented at the 18th Free Land Camping. In addition to enhancing names for the space of power with the “Bancada do Cocar”, other women dedicated to the struggle for land continue to train and carry out a workshop on basic rights for indigenous women in indigenous territories during the caravan of the Originaries of the Earth 2022, which will still be on the agenda of meetings until November in the Brazilian biomes.
As part of the training and empowerment agenda for voices and speaking power, nine meetings were held in four biomes, involving 45 different peoples and another 520 indigenous women, inside and outside indigenous territories.
There are indigenous women in the dispute for the space of power. You can fund out who they are here:
About ANMIGA:
ANMIGA is a network of continuous articulation in the struggle of indigenous women through their voices in communities and associations; as teachers, elders and healers; in exercising leadership at national, regional and local levels. Today, women’s voices are represented at AMIGA through a vision of the six biomes.
