EcuVoice – The Ecumenical Voice for Human Rights and Peace.

Website: https://ecuvoicephils.wordpress.com/

Country: The Philippines

Global partner since: 2000

The Ecumenical Voice for Peace and Human Rights in the Philippines (Ecumenical Voice) is a network of faith-based and human rights organizations that are working together to promote peace and people’s rights for the defense of life, land, and God’s creation.  EcuVoice has been a partner of KAIROS since the early 2000s. KAIROS has supported EcuVoice to bring the true picture of the human rights situation in the Philippines – including the situation of women, Indigenous people and other victims of rights violations – to various government bodies, including the Canadian Parliament, the US Congress and inter-governmental bodies like the UN Human Rights Council since 2007.

National Council of Churches of the Philippines

Website: https://nccphilippines.org/

Country: The Philippines

Global partner since: 2000

Founded in 1963, the National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP) is an ecumenical fellowship of Protestant denominations in the Philippines working for unity in faith and order. This implies providing the churches with opportunities for common prophetic witness and service in responding to the people’s issues, specifically justice and peace, human dignity and rights, and the integrity of creation. It finds its theological basis in incarnation – in God’s solidarity with us, especially with those who suffer and the vulnerable – for the affirmation of just and inclusive communities. It also compels the church to bring about Christian hope into the realm of the possible in a society weighed down by systemic violence and degradation.

The ministry of the NCCP is organized into three distinct programs—Ecumenical Education and Nurture, Christian Unity and Ecumenical Relations, and Faith, Witness and Service—which seek to express the NCCP’s mission of promoting fellowship, being a channel of united witness, and being a vibrant and credible institution for Christian solidarity towards the genuine transformation of church and society.

Mesa Ecuménica por la Paz

Website: https://mesaecumenica.org/

Global partner since: 2012

Country: Colombia

Focus: marginalized communities on the outskirts of Bogota, Colombia.

The Ecumenical Peace Forum is a process in Colombia’s ecumenical, social, and popular movement. It comprises individuals, different expressions of churches, and communities that, through faith and liberating practice, seek peace with social and environmental justice

Kaji’ Ajpop

Website: https://kaji-ajpop.org/en

Country: Guatemala

Global partner since: 2020

Focus: Mayan women of communities of the Solola region.

Kaji’ Ajpop is an association of Indigenous Mayan women that promotes creating conditions for vulnerable communities in the country (especially the Mayan population) to access basic conditions to live dignified and full lives in harmony with Mother Nature. Founded in 2019, Kaji’ Ajpop works with Maya Kaqchikel women in and around Sololá, Guatemala, to enhance and increase their participation in decision-making spaces and capacity to generate proposals and undertake advocacy in women’s groups and committees.

Acción Ecológica

Website: https://www.accionecologica.org/

Country: Ecuador

Global Partner since: 2001

Focus: Quito’s population participants of the Regional Consultation about the ban on metallic mining in the Northwest of the country.

Acción Ecológica (AE) is a national and international reference, respected for being a critical, feminist, environmental organization consistent with the principles that sustain it.  AE works with Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and farming communities on issues related to the defence of human and environmental rights and territories, especially in the context of resource extraction. They also work with young people in urban settings, always joining efforts and initiatives to defend nature and the people. AE was instrumental in the ecological debt campaign during Jubilee 2000, arguing the North owes the South due to ecological destruction and damage (loss and damages), the Keep the Oil in the Ground campaign and for several years promoting the Amazon for Life Campaign to make visible the impacts of oil activity on Amazon.

Centro de Formación Integral Para Promotores Indígenas A.C, Diocese of San Cristobal

Website: https://www.facebook.com/people/Cefipi-AC/pfbid02Gt8XCAoTKTv8Xr11CyhHf5WtuHbL3jvKEtvkfKQ3PkCjLKA6TSPDMeFbWVCEZDSFl/  & https://www.instagram.com/cefipi_ac/?hl=de&img_index=1

Country: Chiapas – Mexico

Global partner since: 2017

Focus: Chab team Tseltal population, mission of Bachajón, Diocese of San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.

Since its founding in August 1997, the Centro De Formación Integral Para Promotores Indígenas A.C. of the Diocese of San Cristobal de las Casas trains human rights promoters to work across the diocese to defend human rights, especially those at the intersection of Indigenous rights and ecological justice, seeks to strengthen Indigenous promoters, improving the quality of life of the Tseltal communities. The organization is linked to the parishes of Chilón, run by the Tseltal of Chilón. The program is rooted in the historic work of the Diocese of San Cristobal in human rights and social justice and is associated with the legacy of Bishop Samuel Ruiz.

Red Latinoamericana de Mujeres Defensoras de Derechos Sociales y Ambientales

Website: https://www.redlatinoamericanademujeres.org/

Country: The Network is present in 10 Abya Yala countries. Their coordination rotates between member organizations.

Global partner since: 2012

Focus: Partner Organizations in Latin America for social media platforms.

The Latin American Network of Women Defenders of Social and Environmental Rights is a women’s organization present in 11 countries of Abya Yala that influences policies, projects and practices that contribute to the defence of the rights of our peoples, of nature and of the social rights that are violated by extractive mining projects and that directly affect women.

Organización Femenina Popular – OFP

Website: https://www.organizacionfemeninapopular.org/en/home-2/

Country: Barrancabermeja, Santander (Prov) Colombia

Global partner since: 2001

Focus: Three hundred rural and urban women from neighbourhoods and sectors of the municipalities of Barrancabermeja, Yondó (Antioquia), San Pablo (Bolívar) and the corregimiento of La Fortuna (Barrancabermeja).  In addition, 1,200 people will be indirectly impacted to promote social integration and an environment of respect and community recognition of their diverse capacity, free of gender discrimination.

The OFP’s work materializes in programs and actions to dignify the lives of women and their families and contribute directly to transforming their realities. Its commitment to the fair and inclusive development of the region promotes the inclusion of women as political subjects and the transformation of the paradigms of discrimination and violence in the public and private spheres. It has been working with women victims and survivors of gender-based violence and the decades-long conflict to build conditions for just, equitable and sustainable peace in the Magdalena Medio region, which is rich in natural resources, making it a focal point of the conflict.  As in other areas, women face the impacts of environmental degradation caused by climate change and resource extraction differently and often more acutely. The OFP has joined environmental and human rights in raising concerns about these issues.