AFRICAN WOMEN WEAVING A JUST WORLD FOR PEOPLE AND NATURE
African Voices Call for Radical Action at Women's Climate Assembly
Reflections from women survivors of sexual violence in opens in a new windowmining impacted communities in Zimbabwe and Sierra Leone. The voices of 150 African women resonated loudly at the second Women’s Climate Assembly 2023 (WCA) where participants from 17 countries across Central and West Africa converged in Lagos, Nigeria to learn and share more about their linked struggles. Held over 24 – 28 September 2023…
“Attempted Murder Charges Brought Against Peaceful Protesters!”
On National Women’s Day in 1956 women marched to protest unjust racist laws which impeded their movement and their livelihoods. For this they faced down white men with guns and the threat of death. Sixty-seven years later in a community called Concordia in the Northern Cape, women led their community in a peaceful blockade…
AfDB Finance Development for People not Profit!
WoMin is thrilled to launch a new pamphlet, AfDB Finance Development for People not Profit! This resource explores why women and communities dealing with dirty AfDB-funded projects are demanding justice and reparations in their fight for development that puts people first instead of profit.
WATCH | African Sovereignty: Women live the Alternatives - Animated Film Series
WoMin presents the third instalment in our Pathways to a Just Future for Africa series of animated short films – African Sovereignty: Women live the Alternatives. This third film expands on the alternatives to a destructive development model, which women and their communities are protecting and proposing in their organising and resistances.
Women resisting African Development Bank projects demand reparations
The consequences of ‘development’ projects financed by the African Development Bank are stark whilst the suffering of those who are affected continues. Women and their communities are organising to say NO to the heavy toll of projects imposed by the AfDB that perpetuate a opens in a new windowcapitalist, neo-colonial development model for Africa. Read more.
Ugandan women fight for the Right to Say NO!
When Judith Beroirwoth’s piece of land was forcefully acquired for the construction of flowlines to transport crude oil and water to the Oil Central Processing Unit in Buliisa, Uganda, she was forced to co-sign consent forms with her husband’s signature despite being the sole landowner. Read more…
Women Building On Ancient African Knowledge For A Different Future
In honour of International Women’s Day 2023, WoMin’s Eliana N’Zualo sounds off on building African ecofeminist futures. Read more…
