Reflect! Resist! Rise!

This year, over 120 activists, community women and leaders from 12 countries across West and Central Africa gathered in Saly, Senegal for the 3rd Women's Climate Assembly (WCA) under the banner, African women rise to defend their lands, oceans and forests. This highlights video, offers a glimpse of this vibrant and transformative space celebrating and foregrounding African women’s voices, solidarity, and their power to shape a just future for us all. The WCA is led by a steering group of NGOs, community organisations and their allies including Lumière Synergie pour le Développement, Green Development Advocates, WoME Sierra Leone, Kebetkache Women and Development Resource Centre and WoMin African Alliance.

WoMin is thrilled to launch the third installment in our 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’s proposition for just development lies in their resistance to the violent encroachments of mining, oil and gas extraction and large-scale infrastructure, including mega-energy projects to defend their seeds, their autonomy, their forms of production, their community relations, and very importantly their interdependent relationship with nature without which they would not survive. They are saying NO to the deeply destructive extractivist model of development, and YES to the real and living alternatives in the ways they produce food, conserve, and steward natural resources, and take care of their families and communities. ........................................................................................................................................................... WoMin est ravi de lancer le troisième film de sa série de courts métrages d'animation - La souveraineté africaine : Les Femmes vivent les alternatives. Ce troisième film développe les alternatives à un modèle de développement destructeur, que les femmes et leurs communautés protègent et proposent en se mobilisant et en résistant. La proposition des femmes pour un développement juste réside dans leur résistance aux empiètements violents de l'extraction minière, pétrolière et gazière et des infrastructures à grande échelle, y compris les méga projets énergétiques, afin de défendre leurs semences, leur autonomie, leurs formes de production, leurs relations communautaires et, surtout, leur relation d'interdépendance avec la nature sans laquelle elles ne pourraient pas survivre. Elles disent NON au modèle de développement extractiviste profondément destructeur et OUI aux alternatives réelles et vivantes dans la manière dont elles produisent des aliments, conservent et gèrent les ressources naturelles et prennent soin de leurs familles et de leurs communautés.

This short video features highlights from the Women’s Climate Assembly held in the Niger Delta from 17 - 20 October 2022. The groundbreaking gathering brought together women from Guinea Conakry, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Nigeria who daily experience the costs of the rapidly growing climate crisis. It aimed to strengthen and unify women-led struggles against destructive large-scale projects and false solutions to the climate crisis and offer a powerful platform for women to propose and shine a light on the REAL development solutions that African women and their communities need to survive now and into the future. The assembly was co-hosted by leading women’s movements and local community organisations including Nous Sommes Les Solutions, Khelkom Women Fishers Association, Les Femmes s’engagent, L’Association de défense des droits des aides ménagères et domestiques, Réseau des Femmes Braves and Femmes Riveraines de Campo. NGO allies who supported the platform included Kebetkache Women Development & Resource Centre, Green Development Advocates, Lumiere Synergie pour le Developpement, and WoMin African Alliance. #Africa #extractives #climatejustice #foodsovereignty #Right2SayNO

This short video shows the destructive and increasing climate impacts on African women specifically and their communities. Africa is living the climate crisis now yet has contributed least to cause this crisis. African women and their communities are leading the fight to protect their natural resources and way of life. They are rising up and saying NO – enough is enough! JOIN the fight to protect our nature, people and planet!

Cette courte vidéo montre les impacts destructeurs et croissants du climat sur les femmes africaines en particulier et leurs communautés. L'Afrique vit actuellement la crise climatique mais a le moins contribué à provoquer cette crise. Les femmes africaines et leurs communautés mènent le combat pour protéger leurs ressources naturelles et leur mode de vie. Ils se lèvent et disent NON - ça suffit ! REJOIGNEZ la lutte pour protéger notre nature, nos hommes et notre planète !

In this interview Sandra Msiribi of The Good Health Community Programme (GHCP) in Kenya shares her insights and reflections on the Right to Say No sub-regional training hosted by WoMin, Haki Madini and partners from 20 - 25 June 2022 in Tanzania. The training brought together organisations from E Africa including South Africa, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania with the aim to strengthen and deepen struggles, and campaigns against destructive natural resource exploitation (mining, industrial agriculture, large infrastructure projects and large-scale fishing) under the umbrella of the #R2SayNO. For more information visit www.womin.africa.

In this interview Andrew Byaruhanga from Resource Rights in Uganda shares his insights and reflections on the Right to Say No sub-regional training co-hosted by WoMin, Haki Madini and partners from 20 - 25 June 2022 in Mwanza, Tanzania. The training brought together organisations from E Africa including South Africa, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania with the aim to strengthen and deepen struggles, and campaigns against destructive natural resource exploitation (mining, industrial agriculture, large infrastructure projects and large-scale fishing) under the umbrella of the #R2SayNO. For more information visit www.womin.africa.

In this interview Zinzile Fengu from The Centre for Natural Resource Governance (CNRG) in Zimbabwe shares her insights and reflections on the Right to Say No sub-regional training co-hosted by WoMin, Haki Madini and partners from 20 - 25 June 2022 in Mwanza, Tanzania. The training brought together organisations from East Africa including South Africa, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania with the aim to strengthen and deepen struggles, and campaigns against destructive natural resource exploitation (mining, industrial agriculture, large infrastructure projects and large-scale fishing) under the umbrella of the #R2SayNO. For more information visit www.womin.africa.

The Right to Say NO: Women Defend Africa’s Wealth This is the first in a series of animated short films. This film shows some of the ways in which rural, peasant and working-class women and communities across Africa resist the theft of Africa’s wealth – land, forests, water bodies and species – and assert their Right to Say NO. A follow up to the first film, Polluters & Plunderers: The Roots of Africa’s Crises, this tells the story of women and their communities’ resistances to an economic system which steals their livelihoods, exploits their labour, destroys the ecosystems upon which Life depends, and is ultimately causing planetary crisis. In this resistance and defence of people and nature, women and communities are also putting forward different visions of Africa, so that we all can claim the Right to Say YES to life and a better world for us all. READ MORE about this film and more: https://womin.africa/launch-the-right...