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Through the common herstories of struggle and transformation, the women found strength in the growing awareness of themselves and the world around the...

The climate crisis is deepening across Southern Africa. Thousands of people have been killed by increasingly frequent and brutal cyclones, with those ...

Social and climate justice movements have long demanded alternative development models and social relations that are different from neoliberalism, whi...

From 4-8 August 2025, participants from Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Senegal, Niger, Burkina Faso and Congo Brazzaville gathered in Kribi, Cameroon, to sha...

What does it mean to sustain a popular education programme with over 60 women, where caregiving responsibilities and political demands seem to collide...

As the world looks ahead to the upcoming COP30 in Belem, Brazil, ironically, huge swathes of the rainforest have been cleared for roads for the world’...

The Regional Week of Action taking place from 28 to 31 July 2025, is part of a growing movement demanding reparations from the African Development Ban...

All over the world, women climate justice activists and land defenders are on the frontlines of resisting oil and gas extraction and identify the stru...

Peasant and working-class people, who have been displaced from their land, water, forests, and other vital resources to make way for extractive projec...

For over a decade, WoMin has worked to make visible the costs and losses that extractivist capitalism forces onto African working class and peasant wo...

This Day of Reconciliation on December 16, 2024, the communities of Namakwaland will gather together in the town of Concordia at the historic Levy Hal...

“I refused to sign. I cannot sell out my people. And if need be, I will die for my people.” These were the powerful words of Fikile Ntshangase, a 63-y...

Over the last few decades, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has increased its investments in infrastructure and large-scale projects to “improve” t...

This October, the coastal town of Saly, Senegal played host to two critical African climate justice convergences - the 2024 Women's Climate Assembly (...

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 ...

WoMin is proud to mark a decade of supporting women and communities resisting extractive developments, in collaboration with a substantive network of ...

The progressive disappearance of biodiversity due to industrial plantations, mining, and other extractive activities, as well as climate change, has a...

Indigenous women of the Tepeth and Benet Mosopisyek communities call out Tororo Cement Limited (TCL), which is polluting their territories and buying ...

On 7 March 2024, the Richtersveld community embarked on a silent protest at their ancestral gravesites at Boegoebaai to challenge the Southern African...

For centuries, South Africa's West Coast, spanning the Western and Northern Cape provinces, has been subjected to destructive mining activities and mo...

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 f...

Across East Africa, communal land rights are under threat from land grabs and increased exploitation of natural resources found on indigenous land, of...

A short reflection on women’s and community struggles against climate catastrophe and extractivism across Africa

Movements from across the globe organising for debt cancellation, climate justice, women's rights, social justice and economic equality converged in M...

In early October 2023, WoMin, through the Violence against Women (VAW) Programme undertook an expedition to Uganda to better understand the lived real...

The Assembly was a feminist organising, solidarity, and learning convergence which deepened women’s leadership, knowledge, and movements across West a...

Communities are fed up with the failed promises of government and mining companies.

Government of Liberia should be accountable for massive human rights violations, pollution of water sources, land, and natural resources of indigenous...

The voices of 150 African women resonated loudly at the second Women's Climate Assembly 2023 (WCA) where participants from 17 countries across Central...

The second Women's Climate Assembly (WCA) to be held in Lagos, Nigeria from 24 to 28 September 2023 will bring together women from fourteen countries ...

Kebetkache Women Development & Resource Centre continues to amplify women’s voices in the struggle against unjust resource extraction and degradat...

“We are not criminals! It feels as if we have no right to defend our land." On 9 August, twenty-seven community members of Concordia, Northern Cape we...

Reflections from women survivors of sexual violence in mining impacted communities in Zimbabwe and Sierra Leone.

With the intent to collectively explore perspectives on Development Alternatives, WoMin recently organised a workshop with women activists from Botswa...

The consequences of 'development' projects financed by the African Development Bank are stark whilst the suffering of those who are affected continues...

This is a condensed version of an interview conducted by Oumou Koulibaly, WoMin Francophone Coordinator of Women Building Power, Energy and opens in a...

As we celebrate Earth Day tomorrow, we are painfully aware that Africa continues to get pummelled by the climate crisis! The latest hit has been at th...

WoMin African Alliance in collaboration with its partner opens in a new windowLumière Synergie Développement organized a training workshop from 9 to 1...

On this International Earth Day on 22 April, we pay homage to the struggles of African women to protect ecosystems, as part of opens in a new windowa ...

Why we need Pan-African ecofeminist visions for today and our future International Women’s Day cannot be an empty annual commemoration. It must take u...

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 P...

It was a misty February morning in Maputo when, from our classroom windows, we saw the colorful mosaic of flowers, slides and swings outside turn into...

It is hard to imagine that Madagascar, the island state portrayed as a pristine haven for all of nature in the charming Hollywood animated movie by th...

The intrinsic relationship between the celebration of the harvest season, climate change and ecofeminism.

Dreaming Futures Beyond Extractivism This is the song that is reverberating in the room where we as WoMin, along with other organisations and movement...

The recent Women’s Climate Assembly held in the Niger Delta from 17-20 October 2022 was the largest women’s climate gathering in Africa bringing toget...

The West and Central African Women’s Climate Assembly will be held in the Niger Delta between 17-20 October 2022. The event is co-hosted by leading wo...

Every single week, 3 environmental defenders are killed for defending their lands, forests, waters & lives (Global Witness). In late December 2020...

Read the verdict of The People's Tribunal: People and Nature vs the UNFCCC held on 7 November 2021 at the Peoples Summit for Climate Justice.

Amidst possibly the greatest systemic crisis facing humanity in this 21st century, an ecofeminist perspective is critical to imagining and advancing a...

WoMin is pleased to launch the second in our series of animated short films – The Right to Say NO: Women Defend Africa’s Wealth.

Like the entire West African coastline, Grand Lahou, a coastal city located 150 km west of Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire) is increasingly threatened by risin...

Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone’s head.

Civil society groups in the SADC region and their allies join hands in calling on the government of Zimbabwe to drop the case and all charges against ...

As May Day or International Workers’ Day is widely celebrated by trade unions, governments, and local and international organisations alike, the COVID...

While police and military violence is inherent in the extractives sector, police violence in general is rooted in colonialism.

On 24 March the world commemorates the International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Vi...

For many who live in urban areas and regularly access mobile data, the transition to COVID-19 life was a challenge but not an insurmountable one...

Over the course of three days from 24-26 September 2020, WoMin and allies mobilised an powerful learning exchange between communities impacted by coal...

Where are the voices of working-class and rural Black women in the larger story about COVID-19 in South Africa?

The Democratic Republic of Congo has just concluded a week-long conference on the beleaguered Grand Inga Dam Project, restating the commitment from So...

The struggle for water amongst communities in townships and rural areas throughout South Africa has been a long suffering issue. Coupled with the grow...

We call on the African Union, African Heads of State, International Financial Institutions, Chinese lending bodies and private creditors for a total a...