The Index Podcast: Mexico and Resilience

Defending nature together

Local voices, global impact

Now that we’ve highlighted the critical nature crimes threatening our ecosystems, we turn to how communities are stepping up to protect their environments. By connecting them with support networks, we are fostering local responses to combat these crimes.

Resilience Fellowship 2024

Batucadas Populares

As part of the 2024 Resilience Fellowship, Ecuadorian Xavier Moreira works to strengthen the Batucadas Populares, where through this medium, they express messages of peace and resistance to the violence affecting the working-class sectors of Guayaquil.

Understanding nature crimes to fight back

Destroying our planet, fueling instability

Nature crimes involve illegal activities that exploit and destroy natural resources, severely impacting ecosystems, communities, and global stability. By understanding these crimes and their impact, we can take action to protect the environment and communities.

Somos Comunidad

Atlas of Resilience

This Atlas of Resilience is the summary of a collective effort, in which communities, institutions and the vibrant and collaborative spirit of the territories and their people have made it possible for community resilience to persist. In these real and heartfelt stories is the experience and evidence of hundreds of people who, from the mountains and savannas of the Caribbean and the valleys of the Pacific to the roads of Catatumbo and the mountains of Cauca– continue to risk it all to defend their livelihoods. 

Meet Bobbo Moussa

Follow the Fellows 2023

Bobbo and his network of volunteers have been helping vulnerable community members affected by criminal violence, particularly women and children, in the wake of Boko Haram attacks on villages and military bases in northern Cameroon.

GI-TOC welcomes Bente Angell-Hansen

New Chair of the Resilience Fund Advisory Council

The Resilience Fund will benefit from her experience and insights as it expands its funding, capacity building and networking support to civil society organizations and individuals around the world.

7 March 2024

«Randi Randi» Expresiones de la resiliencia en Ecuador

Diálogo para la Resiliencia comunitaria frente a los delitos ambientales y la deforestación en ecosistemas de Ecuador

5 March 2024

High-level Global Resilience Dialogue

Empowering local and indigenous women against environmental crimes and biodiversity loss in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Disappearances and organized crime

‘We just want to find our children’

Although organized crime-related disappearances vary in motive and scope, they disproportionately affect the most marginalized communities.

Hacer periodismo en la soledad

La serie de podcast «Hacer periodismo en la soledad» aborda la violencia contra periodistas en México como causa del desplazamiento, explora las consecuencias de vivir en el exilio y resalta la resiliencia que implica el retorno.

Resilience Fund

Violento déjà vu: Historia de una detención en dos jueves negros

Es necesario un cambio de paradigma en la respuesta al crimen organizado, que vaya más allá de consideraciones policiales.

31 January 2024

Regional Resilience Dialogue

Resilience Dialogues for the implementation of recommendations on empowering local and indigenous women against environmental crimes in Africa