The EU-Chile Trade Agreement, extractivism and human rights
by Patricia Muñoz Cabrera
The EU-Chile Agreement comes at a time of unprecedented environmental damage and social tensions caused by successive waves of resource extraction in the Atacama Desert in the north of Chile. Already in its 2016 Outlook, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development wrote that “Chile’s natural resource-based economic model was starting to show its limits.”
In this paper, presented at a WIDE+ workshop in May 2024 in Paris and later on at the IAFFE Annual Conference 2024 in Rome, Patricia Muñoz Cabrera critically assesses the incorporation of gender […]
Survival amidst Gold Mining and Conflict
A Report from Sudan
by Sara Omer Hamad Mohamed
Sudan is the third-largest gold producer in Africa. However, a big portion of the gold production is believed to be smuggled out of the country, with proceeds often used to fund the ongoing internal conflict. The illegitimate gold trade has also helped establish a relationship between the Sudanese RSF militia and the Russian Wagner Group, with Sudanese gold serving as a funding source for Russian interests, including the war in Ukraine.
The economic and political situation in addition to climate change intensifies the existing challenges faced by women involved in artisanal gold mining in […]
The ecological transition must be socially just and feminist!
Report from a workshop on gender and climate justice in Paris
in May 2024, organized by Adéquations and WIDE Austria
Download: Workshop report as a pdf
- Why should action against the climate crisis tackle extractivism and consider gender issues?
- Does the transition towards renewable energy in the Global North lead to the destruction of the livelihoods of people in the Global South?
- How do we include gender issues in an intersectional way in climate policies?
- How can environmental organizations deal with gender equality issues internally?
These (and other) critical questions were discussed during […]
Gender and Climate Justice – Knowledge for Empowerment – Vienna Report
Informative report of a knowledge building event held in Vienna on 2-3 June 2023 in the framework of the COPGENDERED Erasmus+ project of WIDE+ and partners. Download of the report -> ReportCOPGendered2023
The Report contains summaries of the following lectures and exercises:
- Anke Schaffartzik: „Global resource use – climate change and inequalities in the use of natural resources between the global North and South; extractivism and international trade relations; intersecting inequalities“ (Lecture)
- Patricia Muñoz Cabrera: „Climate justice – Indigenous women’s struggle against the rush for ‚white gold‘ (lithium) in the Andes“ (Lecture)
- Daniela Paredes-Grijalva: „Climate-induced forced migration“ (Group work: […]
Gender and Climate Justice: Knowledge for Empowerment
COPGENDERED
Erasmus+ project in cooperation with WIDE +
The COPGENDERED project builds up tools, knowledge and methodologies for learners to upskill themselves (in groups, individually or with a teacher) on the linkages between gender inequality and the climate crisis. This includes capacity building through transnational trainings and providing information materials and tools for adult education providers.
- You can find the first project report here ->
The project started on December 1st 2022 and will end November 30th 2025.
It is implemented by the following organisations:
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Feminist south perspectives on climate crisis – voices of activists
Three informative videos on how climate change affects marginalised people in the global south, the linkages and and responsibilities.
The videos are a result of a series of online talks (webinars) on „Feminist south perspectives on the climate crisis“ which have been organized by WIDE and Südwind in 2023 and beginning of 2024.
Climate Crisis: Feminist perspectives from Colombia
Gold mining in Sudan: Women, the climate crisis and extractivism
Feminist & youth perspectives on the Climate Conference 2023
Fotocredits © Greenpeace
Gender and climate-induced migration
Briefing paper by Isabella Szukits
The climate crisis affects millions of people worldwide. However, not everyone feels its effects equally. The main causes of global heating are the burning of fossil fuels and our current economic system, which is based on the exploitation of nature and people. People in the Global South and young people have not contributed as much to these causes, but they have to live with and deal with the effects.
Briefing paper (pdf): Gender & climate-induced migration
While a direct link between the climate crisis and migration decisions might not always be […]
Iran: Frau, Leben, Freiheit
Bericht von einer Veranstaltung mit Mina Ahadi
Eine Diskussionsveranstaltung am 16. Jänner 2023 in der Frauenhetz in Wien, gemeinsam organisiert von WIDE, Frauenhetz und der Österreich-Sektion der Women´s International League for Peace and Freedom, war mit 75 Besucher*innen (und weiteren Personen, die leider aufgrund des Platzes nicht mehr eingelassen werden konnten – wir entschuldigen uns!) sehr gut besucht.
Die exilierte Frauenrechtsaktivistin Mina Ahadi berichtete von ihrem Bewusstwerdungs- und Politisierungsprozess im Lauf ihres Lebens, das geprägt war von ihren Erfahrungen mit einem politischen Islam an der Macht – nach der großen Aufbruchsstimmung im Zuge des Widerstands gegen das Schah-Regime im Iran und dessen […]
Feminists demand end of UN WOMEN’s partnership with BlackRock
#StopBlackRock
On 25 May 2022, UN Women announced a partnership with the investment company BlackRock, “to cooperate in promoting the growth of gender lens investing”.
A collective of feminist activists and women’s rights organisations from around the world expressed their protest to this „corporate capture“ in a letter to UN WOMEN (see WEDO press release from 9.8.2022). The letter was supported by more than 500 NGOs, among them WIDE Austria and the European WIDE+ network.
Challenging corporate capture
BlackRock Inc. is a global player in financial investment. As highlighted in the NGO letter […]
CSW66: Gender-Gleichstellung im Kontext des Klimawandels
Bericht von der 66. Tagung der UN-Frauenstatuskommission (CSW66)
von Aleksandra Kolodziejczyk
Die 66. Tagung der UN-Frauenstatuskommission (CSW – Commission on the Status of Women) hat von 14.-25.3.2022 stattgefunden. Das Schwerpunktthema war Geschlechtergleichstellung im Kontext des Klimawandel und der Umwelt- und Katastrophenvorsorge („Achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction policies and programmes“). Zum ersten Mal in der Geschichte der CSW hat sich die Tagung mit den Verbindungen zwischen Geschlechtergleichstellung und Klima/Umwelt beschäftigt.
Die Tagung fand in hybrider Form statt: Die Verhandlungen rund um das im Konsens von den UN-Mitgliedstaaten […]
Tag der Menschenrechte: Fokus auf WSK-Rechte
NGO-Schattenbericht
Anlässlich des Tags der Menschenrechte am 10. Dezember 2021 hat die AG Globale Verantwortung, der Dachverband humanitärer und entwicklungspolitischer NGOs in Österreich, gemeinsam mit anderen zivilgesellschaftlichen Organisationen, darunter WIDE, einen Bericht herausgebracht.
In diesem Parallelbericht zum (nicht abgegebenen) österreichischen Staatenbericht wird auf extraterritoriale Staatenpflichten eingegangen. Beispielhaft wird aufgezeigt, wie sich Österreichs Steuer-, Handels-, Rohstoff-, Klima-, Agrar-, Ernährungs- und Entwicklungspolitik auf Menschenrechte in Ländern des Globalen Südens auswirkt und welche Schritte zur Vermeidung von Menschenrechtsverletzungen gesetzt werden sollten.
Extraterritoriale Staatenpflichten
In Folge der Globalisierung und der wirtschaftlichen Verflechtung zwischen verschiedenen Teilen der Welt können Handlungen von Staaten und Unternehmen direkte Auswirkungen auf die Menschenrechte […]
Feminist Economic Alternatives
Report from an ActionAid webinar
By Margaux Bolzan
(22.12.2020) A new report of Action Aid Netherlands was presented in a webinar on the 9th of December 2020. In this event, experts gathered to discuss about the report which provides policy and analytical frameworks for feminist economic alternatives (FEAs).
The speakers were Mariama SONKO (president of the NSS/We Are the Solution, Senegal), Soledad SALVADOR (economist and researcher on development and gender at the Interdisciplinary Center for Development Studies, Uruguay) and Roos SAALBRINK (policy and advocacy manager on women’s economic rights at Womankind Worldwide).
The moderators, Rachel WALKER (Women’s Rights Campaign Manager in ActionAid Netherlands), Lila […]
Climate change, gender and women in the global South
Snapshots of impacts, challenges and actions
by Mariama Williams, South Centre
Beitrag von Mariama Williams auf der Feministischen Klimakonferenz, am 22.11.2019 in Wien (mitveranstaltet von WIDE)
Generation Equality: NGO-Forum in Genf
Review: 25 Jahre Weltfrauenkonferenz von Peking
(26.11.2019) Anlässlich des Treffens der UNECE (regionale UN-Wirtschaftskommission für Europa, Zentralasien und Nordamerika) Ende Oktober koordinierten sich feministische NGOs, um 25 Jahre nach der wegweisenden Weltfrauenkonferenz von Peking die gegenwärtigen und kommende Herausforderungen für Frauen zu thematisieren, gemeinsam Strategien zu entwickeln und Aktionen zu setzen.
Ein feministischer Blick auf entwicklungspolitische Erwachsenenbildung
Ein Beitrag von Katharina Novy im Rahmen einer von WIDE mitgestalteten Paneldiskussion zu „Genderrelevanz in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und der entwicklungpolitischen Bildung“ im Rahmen einer Dialogveranstaltung der Austrian Development Agency (ADA) zur entwicklungspolitischen Kommunikation und Bildung in Österreich am 6. März 2019 im C3 in Wien.