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WoMin African Alliance @wominafrica.bsky.social · 23h

Makan x TNI - ‘Vietnam, Algeria, Palestine: Passing on the torch of the anti-colonial struggle’ - Online Lecture
Thurs, 16 Oct 2025 at 6-7pm (London time).
Register - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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WoMin African Alliance @wominafrica.bsky.social · 23h

The Peoples and Nature Tribunal against the IMF & the World Bank invites you to participate in the Hearing on Water, Climate, and Energy 🌍
📅October 13 from ⏰8 - 11pm UTC.
Register to participate with simultaneous interpretation 👉https://bit.ly/AudienciaTribunalOct

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WoMin African Alliance @wominafrica.bsky.social · 1d

📢Le Tribunal des peuples et de la nature contre le FMI et la Banque mondiale vous invite à participer à la prochaine Audience sur l'eau, le climat et l'énergie, qui se tiendra le lundi 13 octobre, de 20h à 23h UTC. 🔗 bit.ly/AudienciaTri...

WoMin African Alliance @wominafrica.bsky.social · 1d

Behind the fanfare of the Africa Climate Summit, the East African Crude Oil Pipeline shows how neocolonial extraction still drives Africa’s energy future.
africasacountry.com/2025/10/ener...

Energy for whom?

Behind the fanfare of the Africa Climate Summit, the East African Crude Oil Pipeline shows how neocolonial extraction still drives Africa’s energy future.

africasacountry.com

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WoMin African Alliance @wominafrica.bsky.social · 1d

The landmark opinion confirmed that states have a binding legal duty to prevent climate harm and to protect human rights from the impacts of climate change. The ruling is likely to have far-reaching implications, including at the World Bank & other IFIs...
www.brettonwoodsproject.org/2025/10/inte...

International Court of Justice ruling delivers ‘earthquake’ on states’ obligations to address climate crisis

Landmark opinion confirms states have a binding legal duty to prevent climate harm, which has implications for their ‘voice and vote’ at IFIs.

www.brettonwoodsproject.org

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WoMin African Alliance @wominafrica.bsky.social · 1d

Across the globe, from Argentina to Egypt and Pakistan, unjust debt and austerity policies imposed by powerful development banks – the International Monetary Fund and World Bank – are undermining democracy and fuelling authoritarianism.
act.debtjustice.org.uk/debt-democra...

WoMin African Alliance @wominafrica.bsky.social · 2d

In Africa, workers and local communities are bearing the brunt of human rights abuses related to the extraction of transition minerals.
www.business-humanrights.org/en/from-us/b...

Transition Minerals Tracker 2025: Africa - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

Check out this page via the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre

www.business-humanrights.org

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WoMin African Alliance @wominafrica.bsky.social · 2d

📖The 2025 Local Letters for Global Change contest is open! Learn more 👇
pulitzercenter.org/builder/less...

Local Letters for Global Change: A Pulitzer Center Writing Contest

SECTIONS Contest GuidelinesResources for Teachers and StudentsSuggested Stories The 2025 Local Letters for Global Change contest is open! K-12 students: Make your voice heard this fall by writing a le...

pulitzercenter.org

WoMin African Alliance @wominafrica.bsky.social · 2d

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WoMin African Alliance @wominafrica.bsky.social · 2d

WoMin African Alliance @wominafrica.bsky.social · 3d

#Mozambique - Civil society organisations urgently warn financial institutions against supporting these projects given the high human rights, climate and environmental risks associated with them.
reclaimfinance.org/site/en/2025...

Civil society organisations condemn acceleration of gas projects in Mozambique - Reclaim Finance

Despite mounting security and human rights risks and unresolved community grievances, major oil and gas companies are rushing ahead with multibillion-dollar gas projects in Mozambique

reclaimfinance.org

WoMin African Alliance @wominafrica.bsky.social · 3d

WoMin African Alliance @wominafrica.bsky.social · 4d

🌍📖𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝑷𝒂𝒏-𝑨𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝑬𝒄𝒐𝒇𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒕 𝑨𝒍𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒑𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒆❓
WLL participants from Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Uganda & South Africa reflected on this & more at the recent Pan-African Gathering.

WoMin African Alliance @wominafrica.bsky.social · 4d

📢 Registration is open for the 2nd Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) online course!
This 5 month programme will guide participants through the essential elements of FPAR methodology.

Applications close October 10, 2025
Register 👇
www.fparacademy.com/pages/fpar-f...

WoMin African Alliance @wominafrica.bsky.social · 4d

Transition Minerals, Indigenous Rights & Biodiversity: Governance in Retreat and Pathways for Influence
📅 9 Oct 2025
⏰ 15:00–16:30 CEST
🌐 Online | Interpretation EN/ES/PT/FR/BH
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Reposted by WoMin African Alliance

Witness Radio - Uganda @witnessradio.bsky.social · 4d

Use COP30 in Belém, Brazil, to fix the historical injustices meted out against Afro-descendant and Indigenous Peoples – #CSOs demand.
#COP30
Red more: witnessradio.org/use-cop30-in...

Use COP30 in Belém, Brazil, to fix the historical injustices meted out against Afro-descendant and Indigenous Peoples – CSOs demand.

By Witness Radio Team. A global coalition, comprising more than 140 organizations and 110 public figures, including national ministries, major human rights organizations, grassroots movements, and pro...

witnessradio.org

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WoMin African Alliance @wominafrica.bsky.social · 7d

#16OCT25 | Call to Action – International Day of Action for People’s Food Sovereignty, and against Transnational Corporations
viacampesina.org/en/2025/09/1...

#16OCT25 | Call to Action - International Day of Action for People’s Food Sovereignty, and against Transnational Corporations | Via Campesina

International Day For Food Sovereignty - #16October

viacampesina.org

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WoMin African Alliance @wominafrica.bsky.social · 8d

WoMin African Alliance @wominafrica.bsky.social · 9d

📖🌍WoMin's Women Learning Liberation program is proud to host its Pan-African gathering of participants from Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Uganda & South Africa in Maputo.

From 1-6 Oct, it brings together participants to share what they have learnt & build solidarity 📢

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WoMin African Alliance @wominafrica.bsky.social · 9d

“We have been fighting for our rights for a long time. This new information comforts us in the struggle to retrieve our farmland,” said Félicité Ngon Bissou, president of AFRISE, a women’s association in Edea.
newsupfront.com/cameroon-leg...

Cameroon: legal report tears apart SOCAPALM’s claim to Apouh land - News Upfront

Story, Louvier Kindo Tombe A new legal analysis presented in Yaoundé on September 29 has cast serious doubt on SOCAPALM’s legitimacy in Apouh, Littoral Region. Conducted by Green Development Advocate ...

newsupfront.com

WoMin African Alliance @wominafrica.bsky.social · 9d

True climate justice can only be achieved when the voices of indigenous women with disabilities are heard and their experiences are valued in the creation of mitigation and adaptation strategies to ensure that their specific needs are addressed.
www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/oped/...

What is climate justice without the voices of indigenous women with disabilities?

Basic survival needs must be brought closer to communities through safe water points, alternative fuel sources and renewable energy solutions reducing the long and dangerous journeys

www.monitor.co.ug

WoMin African Alliance @wominafrica.bsky.social · 10d

1st Southern Africa Convening on #Debt 💵and #Reparations

The convening was a firm step towards building movements led by communities for climate reparations, centering a gender justice perspective.
womin.africa/from-climate...

From climate injustice to feminist futures, we demand reparations! - WoMin

The climate crisis is deepening across Southern Africa. Thousands of people have been killed by increasingly frequent and brutal cyclones, with those surviving now living in perpetual crisis unable to...

womin.africa

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WoMin African Alliance @wominafrica.bsky.social · 10d

🌍📰𝐋𝐞𝐬 𝐅𝐞𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐓𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐔𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐞 disponible dès maintenant!
📢LIRE EN FRANÇAIS ET EN ANGLAIS mailchi.mp/womin/newsle...

WoMin African Alliance @wominafrica.bsky.social · 10d

📰📢𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐖𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 🌍is out now!
We honour the voices, experiences and analysis of African women and communities on the frontlines of struggle for justice in all its forms✊.

Available in English & French.
🔗 mailchi.mp/womin/newsle...

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