FIMA is an independent, non-profit NGO founded in 1998 in Chile that advances environmental policy, legislation, and access to justice. Free from government or partisan influence, it can defend environmental cases autonomously. Its mission is to promote the right to a healthy environment and protect nature. It pursues this through environmental litigation, representation of public and community interests, and development of legal arguments for environmental justice. FIMA also strengthens communities through training and legal empowerment, conducts research and publications such as the Revista Justicia Ambiental, and engages in advocacy, public debate, and legislative processes.
Responsible Ezio Costa Cordella
Ezio Costa Cordella is the Executive Directorof FIMA and a Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Chile. He also serves as Deputy Director of the Center for Environmental Law (CDA) and as a researcher at the Center for Regulation and Competition (RegCom). During 2024, he was a visiting researcher at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University. He has been a member of the FIMA NGO team since 2006 and is Executive Director since 2012.
Mundo y Conciencia was founded in Yucatán in 2008 to improve quality of life through participation, collective rights, and human, sustainable, and community development. It envisions a more just and conscious world where people can live with dignity, strengthening capacities and providing tools for development through organization and participation, while promoting social, environmental, and animal justice. Its work includes a gender equality and ecofeminist approach, programs such as community gardens and knowledge exchange, and support for the defense of water, territory, and collective rights through collaborative networks. It works with Maya communities and collaborates with civil society and academia. In 2024, it co-founded the Autonomous Water Oversight of Yucatán as part of a national movement for water rights, and it currently participates in the research project “Riqueza y Territorio” (2024–2027), contributing to the creation of an observatory on the geography of wealth in Chile, Mexico, and Brazil.
Responsible Teresa Vaught Charruf
Teresa Vaught Charruf, Nace en Mérida, Yucatán, es Licenciada en Derecho, Maestra en Filosofía por la Universidad del Mayab, Fundadora de la Organización Mundo y Conciencia, A.C., organización que promueve Desarrollo humano, Sustentable y Comunitario en Yucatán desde el año 2008. Ha coordinado diversidad de programas de Ecología profunda, educación ambiental, Derechos humanos, y colectivos, entre otros. Ha sido profesora de Desarrollo humano, Ética jurídica y Derechos humanos. Es co fundadora de Colectivos como la Red Ciudadana por la Sostenibilidad de Yucatán, el Consejo Ciudadano por el Agua de Yucatán. Integrante de la comisiaón de comunicación de Agua para todxs, asío como otras redes colaborativas acompañando a comunidades mayas en la defensa del agua y el territorio. Actualmente promueve programas de Eco feminismo como Huertos, Alimentación Sostenible y Cultura de paz.
Terra de Direitos is a human rights organization founded in 2002 in Curitiba, Brazil, focused on defending and promoting economic, social, cultural, and environmental rights (Dhesca), particularly in conflicts over land and territory. It now operates nationally and internationally, with offices in Santarém, Curitiba, and Brasília. Its work is structured around four areas: land and territorial justice, human rights policy and culture, biodiversity and food sovereignty, and access to justice. The organization’s core strategy is popular legal advocacy, combining training, strategic litigation, and policy advocacy in collaboration with social movements. Terra de Direitos also produces research, legal opinions, and reports to inform public policy and legislation, engages in strategic human rights litigation to advance collective rights, and participates in national and international civil society networks to promote advocacy, accountability, and human rights education.
Responsible Jaqueline Pereira de Andrade
Jaqueline Pereira de Andrade es doctoranda en Derecho Socioambiental por la PUC-PR, máster en Derechos Humanos y Democracia por la UFPR y abogada popular en la organización Terra de Direitos. Actúa como coordinadora del Programa Cerrado, centrado en la defensa de los derechos de los pueblos y comunidades tradicionales, el territorio, la biodiversidad, la agroecología y la justicia climática, articulando la investigación académica, el asesoramiento jurídico popular y la incidencia política.
GeoComunes is a collective formed in 2014 and registered as a civil association in 2022, whose core activity is community-led and collaborative cartographic research.
Our aim is to strengthen the self-determination of urban and rural communities and peoples over their territory by highlighting the political dimension of the transformations and interests projected onto the territory, thereby strengthening preventive analysis and organisation for the community planning and management of the commons.
To this end, we develop tools for community organisation and territorial development, such as cartographic research, georeferenced databases, and analyses of local, regional or national issues. We also support community processes for territorial planning through participatory cartography, as well as by creating spaces for training and information generation.
Geocomunes is composed of various experts on community-led and collaborative cartographic research. The team supports Wealth & Space particularly in geospatial visualisations of corporate data at different scales and communication of scientific results on "Geographies of Wealth. Platform for Critical Research on Territorial Wealth".