"Women activists defy danger to protect the environment", 5 August 2014

Female environmental champions…are routinely harassed and threatened for their work to protect natural resources and curb climate change, activists…[said] at the first “Summit on Women and Climate” in Bali...The perpetrators include corporations…state agencies…paid thugs and even members of their own community…often male-dominated. “As women, we are exposed to violence from businesses, governments and repressive institutions...It is three times worse for an indigenous woman,” said [human rights defender] Cáceres...“The media criminalise us too…”...Climate change is worsening living and working conditions for women – especially…in rural and indigenous communities that rely on the environment…12 female environmental leaders were killed in Latin America alone in the past two to three years…Baun, who led an indigenous movement that successfully opposed marble mining in West Timor, was beaten and hacked with a machete...