Roots of Resistance: Documenting the Global Struggles of Defenders Protecting Land and Environmental Rights
Publisher: Global Witness
Date: 2025
Topics: Land, Protection and Access to Justice
Countries: Colombia
Selma dos Santos Dealdina Mbaye is a Quilombola activist and Political Coordinator at the Coordenação Nacional de Articulação das Comunidades Negras Rurais Quilombolas (CONAQ), an organisation fighting for the ancestral land rights of Afro-descendant communities in Brazil. Here she talks about what land and environmental protection means to her community – and to communities like theirs across the world – and the dangers they face defending it.