African Women Say ‘Enough is Enough!’ to the AfDB’s neo-colonial development model
Over the last few decades, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has increased its investments in infrastructure and large-scale projects to “improve” the living conditions of Africans. The reality for many communities across the continent is far different.
Building the Right to Say NO to safeguard women’s rights to land and natural resources in East Africa
WoMin is pleased to launch the latest resource in the Right to Say NO series , Building the Right to Say NO to safeguard women’s rights to land and natural resources in East Africa.
Building together - African Women’s Climate Assembly forges a new pathway to climate action NOW
This October, the coastal town of Saly, Senegal played host to two critical African climate justice convergences – the 2024 Women’s Climate Assembly (WCA) alongside the African People’s Counter COP (APCC). Both gatherings, happening in parallel, brought together a diverse group of activists, NGOs, leaders, and community women to address the urgent need for climate action in Africa…
Women’s Climate Assembly unites the struggles across West and Central Africa for climate justice
The third Women’s Climate Assembly (WCA) is set to take place in Saly, Senegal, from October 7 to 11, 2024. This crucial African gathering will bring together over 120 women activists and community leaders from 12 countries across West and Central Africa to tackle the urgent climate crisis affecting the African continent under the theme, African women stand together to defend our land, waters and forests!
Women Build Power!
Celebrating 10 Years of Pan African Ecofeminist Organising
WoMin is proud to mark a decade of supporting women and communities resisting extractive developments, in collaboration with a substantive network of partners across the African continent with our publication, “Women Build Power! Celebrating 10 Years of Pan African Ecofeminist Organising.
We are nature and nature is us
The progressive disappearance of biodiversity due to industrial plantations, mining, and other extractive activities, as well as climate change, has aggravated land dispossession across the continent
Struggles for securing communal and indigenous forms of land tenure in East Africa
Across East Africa, communal land rights are under threat from land grabs and increased exploitation of natural resources found on indigenous land, often without the free, prior, and informed consent of the custodians of that land.