Global Response and Yala Swamp, Lake Victoria

Global Response organizes international letter-writing campaigns to support local communities that are engaged in struggles to stop environmental destruction. Most often the local communities are indigenous peoples whose struggle is for human rights and land rights as well as environmental protection. For example, our current campaign supports indigenous and Garifuna communities in Belize that are trying to stop oil development in a wetland area where they live. If you’d like to write a letter in solidarity with them to the Prime Minister of Belize, please see the action alert at

I’m developing a new campaign now, based on meetings I had in Nairobi with residents of the Yala Swamp region on the shores of Lake Victoria. You might have heard the Yala Swamp residents present their case at the Peoples’ Tribunal during the Forum. I’ll send you our action alert for this campaign as soon as it’s ready.

If you have networks or listserves, I wonder if you would send the Yala Swamp alert to your lists? It would be great if you would also send them a link to and ask them to register to receive our campaign alerts and updates directly. This would be a great way for us to expand our international network of citizen activists.