The Global Justice Ecology Project teamed up with Global Exchange, Speak Out and the Mobilization for Climate Justice for a Fall 2009 New Voices on Climate Change tour in the U.S. to enable New Voices speakers to communicate directly with U.S. audiences about their experiences both with the impacts of climate change and with real, local solutions to the climate crisis.
Anna Pinto founded CORE in 1987 and is now Secretary and Programme Director of CORE (Centre for Organisation, Research and Education), an indigenous peoples' policy research and advocacy organisation based in the North East of India; active member of the Indian Women's Movement for over two decades; worked with indigenous and tribal people in various parts of India on gender, violence/conflict, and land related issues for over two decades; first really big involvement with Indigenous Peoples issues was on dams and evictions, assessing non-monetary incomes for compensation and rehabilitation in 1986-88; has also worked on the rights of children, human trafficking and sexual slavery, and on the impacts of forced migration.
