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.
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.
Indigenous women of the Tepeth and Benet Mosopisyek communities call out Tororo Cement Limited (TCL), which is polluting their territories and buying out communal land. Together, they laid out powerful demands in defence of their ancestral lands, life and livelihoods
Community Statement – On 7 March 2024, the Richtersveld community embarked on a silent protest at their ancestral gravesites at Boegoebaai to challenge the Southern African government for the return of their land, stolen centuries ago.
For centuries, South Africa’s West Coast, spanning the Western and Northern Cape provinces, has been subjected to destructive mining activities and more recently, offshore oil and gas exploration by multinational corporations rushing to meet a growing global demand.
As we commemorate Earth Day, we must celebrate the women who stand at the forefront of the struggle to protect their communities and the environment from the ravages of harmful extractive industries.
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.
… 98% of Nigeria’s export wealth comes from oil extracted from Ogoniland. But no one here—apart from local elites—is seeing any of that money.” A short reflection on women’s and community struggles against climate catastrophe and extractivism across Africa
RESOURCE LAUNCH: AfDB: Finance Development for people and not profit! WoMin is thrilled to launch a new pamphlet, AfDB Finance Development for People not Profit!
(Photo: Marta Garrich. Women activists and community leaders march at the Counter-Summit in Marrakech, Morocco) Authors: Marta Garrich and Reine Fadonougbo Baimey ‘79 years of
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