During the 57th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, feminists from all over the world raised their concerns about environmental degradation due to unsustainable production and consumption. For instance, in Guatemala, according to Norma Maldonado from NGO Tierra Verde, Indigenous women are deprived of their basic right to enjoy life because they have to walk long hours in order to get the drinking water primarily because extractive/mining industries are using their water recklessly. Isis Alvarez, young environmentalist from the Global Forest Coalition in Colombia, raised the issue of growing agro fuels in Latin America, which is impacting rural and Indigenous women. Similarly, Elina Doszhanova, a Kazakh woman from the NGO Social-EcoFun, observed that the nuclear arms race is poisoning the land of Kazakhstan in context of radiation and uranium mining. Lastly, Noelene Nabulivou of Development Alternatives for a New Era (DAWN) and DIVA for Equality in Fiji called for strong action against unsustainable development and violence against women in every form impacting women of the world.
