Haiti Action Committee is honored to publish this powerful statement from the Women’s Interdepartmental Coalition of…
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Malawi’s Farmers Face a Precarious Future From Climate Change-Related Storms
According to the 2021 Global Climate Risk Index, Malawi is among the five nations worldwide most…
Visit to Bulengo IDP Camps: Addressing the Plight of Twa/Pygmies
On Sunday, April 21, 2024, our team visited two groups at the Bulengo IDP camps near…
Beyond Climate Colonialism and Food Imperialism to Earth Democracy and Food Freedom
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service 6 Sep 2023 1. Mother Earth…
Disappearing Fish Spell Hard Times for Women in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe’s ballooning informal sector has, in recent years, spawned the over-exploitation of the country’s natural resources,…
Social Activists Demand Real Equality for Chilean Women
Women social activists recognize that gender equality is gaining ground in Chile, but maintain that there…
Unregulated Agrochemicals Harm Health of Rural Residents in Central America
By Edgardo Ayala – IPS / Globetrotter In his green cornfield, Salvadoran farmer Medardo Pérez set…
Defining Refugees in the Era of Climate Displacement
27 Jul 2021 – July 28th marks the 70th anniversary of the 1951 UN Refugee Convention. This…
Earth Rising for Earth Democracy and Rights of Mother Earth
On Earth Day Navdanya International calls for Earth Democracy – The fulfilment of human needs and…
Venezuelan women endure the “sanctions” with their bodies
Carmen Navas Reyes and Laura Franco respond to the article published in the New York Times…
Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse’s shameful assault on democracy by U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters: | Miami Herald Opinio
The Biden administration’s response to Haiti’s spiraling political crisis may be motivated by wariness of entangling…
Libya’s peace process doomed to failure without its women
Libya is disintegrating into chaos and lawlessness. Women who stand up to those in charge of…
A letter to Ange Kagame from Carine Kanimba
By, Carine I. Kanimba Dear Ange, I hope that this letter finds you well. My name…
Once again, South African domestic workers win in court, expanding domestic workers’ rights everywhere!
Sylvia Mahlangu outside Constitutional Court Great news! Last week, South Africa’s Constitutional Court ruled that domestic…
Racial Pandemic and Viral Pandemic: USA Is an Epicenter, but Both Pandemics Are Global by Imani Countess and William Minter*
* William Minter is the editor of AfricaFocus Bulletin. Imani Countess is an Open Society Fellow…
Listen to Your Mother: Nobody Should Be Too Rich or Too Poor
The wisdom of our mothers and mothers’ mothers from the dawn of time is reverberating throughout…
Arundhati Roy: ‘The Pandemic Is a Portal’
The novelist on how coronavirus threatens India — and what the country, and the world, should…
What happened to Africa’s ambitious green belt project?
The 15 kilometer (9.3 mile) wide Great Green Wall project stretches over 7,775 km from Senegal…
Too Fast to Be a Woman
When South African track star Caster Semenya won a silver medal at the 2012 Olympic Games,…
Indigenous women in Kenya rebuild resilience amidst an eco-cultural crisis
In the face of growing climate change, indigenous women in Kenya are remembering and reinstating their…
NO ROSES FROM MY MOUTH: Stella NYANZI´S POEMS FROM PRISON By Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire and Esther Mirembe
In Carole Boyce Davies’ study of the political activism of the Black Communist, Claudia Jones, Davies…
Freeing South Sudan’s captive women and girls: 128 down, thousands to go BY NYAGOAH TUT PUR
The current approaches to releasing women and girls who have been forced into armed groups is…
The dangers of NGO-isation of women’s rights in Africa
“The challenge of NGO-isation is that it is predominantly subject to the imagination, assumptions, and interests…
Let’s Talk about Sex
If you’re looking for a treatise on the joys of love-making between consenting, autonomous adults, read…
DILEMMA ON FIGHTING CLASS DIMENSIONS AND PATRIACHAL SYSTEM By: Comrade Nassoro Kitunda
There is a lot of controversy about what to start in opposing it at first. Between…