Around the world, a vibrant and active grassroots movement is demanding a place at the environmental table for the intersecting concerns of women’s rights, Indigenous rights, and climate justice. Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network, International (WECAN) is spearheading Ten Days of Global Mobilization [...] The goal is to bring visibility to the environmental challenges affecting girls and women throughout the world

Last December, as the world celebrated Russia’s widely publicized release of dissident tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, two members of the punk band Pussy Riot and 29 Greenpeace activists, a court in the southern region of Krasnodar — where the Sochi Winter Olympics open next month — sentenced environmentalist Evgeny Vitishko to three years in a penal colony.