cowtreemoon← back to the planet
Community movement

Mujeres de Zonas de Sacrificio en Resistencia Quintero-Puchuncaví

HQ 🇨🇱 Chile · 1 project tracked

The Women Who Named Their Home a Sacrifice Zone

Clean Air

🇨🇱 Chile

Chile zoned this bay for the industry nobody wanted anywhere else, then acted surprised when schoolchildren started collapsing — so the mothers took the phrase 'sacrifice zone' and made it the state's problem.

2,014yearYear the organisation formed
140missionsUN missions they presented the case to in Geneva
5zonesOfficially recognised sacrifice zones in Chile
Something here out of date? →

We research and write every entry ourselves, so there’s no self-serve editing — but corrections from people who know Mujeres de Zonas de Sacrificio en Resistencia Quintero-Puchuncaví first-hand are the best ones we get.

A public page or report we can cite. Without one we usually can’t publish a change.