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A feminist global advocacy org for #GenderJustice, #EnvironmentalJustice and #ClimateJustice 🌱 wedo.org

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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Through an interactive session, learn about outstanding, data-driven projects tackling #ClimateChange, #GenderEquality, and more, featuring impactful stories from communities in India, Pakistan, Benin, Cameroon, and others. Register: bit.ly/GEDAFellowsWebinar
Stories Behind the Numbers: Using Gender-Environment Data to Understand Climate Crises

Thursday, July 23 8-9:15 am EDT

Interpretation in English, French and Spanish will be provided

Registration required
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
We have co-signed this new report that reveals how the IMF's rigid, one-size-fits-all approach to public spending continues to harm people living in poverty around the world. 📄 Read the report: bit.ly/StillCooking
Report: Still Cooking With a Failed Recipe

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A review of IMF country advice on social spending, public services, debt, tax, and gender equalityReport: A new report reveals how the IMF's rigid approach to public spending continues to harm people living in poverty around the world
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
To ensure a just transition away from fossil fuels, we must honor hard-won frameworks, uplift frontline communities, and ensure this process is never seized by those who caused the crisis in the first place. wedo.org/resources/be...
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Our latest Critical Conversation, with political scientist & researcher Thea Riofrancos, explores: - what #lithium is used for - what that use means - how politics around #energy & #extraction have changed in recent years #JustTransition #CriticalMinerals Watch full series: wedo.org/conversations
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Supply Chain Solidarity: Understanding the Geopolitics of Lithium w/ Thea Riofrancos
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
🎉 We are thrilled to share the new report — Towards Economic and Climate Justice: A Feminist Analysis of Critical Trends. 📊 📄 Explore the interactive report in English, French & Spanish, and the PDF version in Arabic, English, French, and Spanish: 2025.economictrends.wedo.org The report finds:
Critical Trends Report: A feminist analysis of tax, trade, debt, corporate capture, global economic governance, feminist climate finance, and systems change. 2025.economictrends.wedo.org
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
While some countries were trying to backtrack on women’s rights at #CSW70 last week, we were on the ground fighting for recognition & inclusion of care in just transition policy. WEDO's Mara Dolan spoke at a Care & Climate side event: bit.ly/3PmyTlh #GenderJustice #JustTransition
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
WEDO is on the ground this week for the 44th #GCF Board meeting, representing the GCF observer network of civil society, Indigenous Peoples, and local communities. We’re calling for meaningful progress to deliver more just, equitable, gender-responsive #ClimateFinance. wedo.org/resources/ho...
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Holding the GCF Accountable: Advancing Just and Equitable Climate Finance at B.44 — WEDO
This week, the Green Climate Fund (GCF), the largest multilateral climate fund, convenes its 44th Board meeting. The GCF’s imperfections and potential reflect many of the overarching tensions and hope...
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
For #WomensHistoryMonth, WEDO Exec. Dir. Bridget Burns & WEDO co-founder Thais Corral dive into WEDO's early days, the friendships & collaborations that shaped the org, and the kind of feminist leadership the world needs now. ▶️ Full conversation: bit.ly/4biPdvW
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Mara from Team WEDO will speak at "From Gas to Care" on Mon, 11 GMT. The discussion will highlight why redirecting public resources toward care economies & renewable, community-led energy systems is essential for a just, gender-transformative transition. climateactionnetwork.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
From Gas to Care: Why public money should fund women, not fossil fuels. 9 March, 11 GMT. Join us for our upcoming webinar to explore how fossil fuel financing shapes public spending priorities and why redirecting public money toward care economies and gender-just energy transitions is both urgent and necessary.The Big Shift Global: People over profits; from gas to care; gas is a fossil fuel
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Recourse @re-course.org · 06/03/2026
Without rights-based approaches, we cannot achieve climate mitigation or resilience. @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social is a leading advocate for climate finance that advances gender equality. Learn more about their feminist work: re-course.org/newsupdates/iwd2026/ #IWD2026 #ClimateFinance
White text on teal background: "Without rights-based approaches, we cannot achieve climate mitigation 
or resilience." Below a photo of two women holding hands and smiling at a protest. 

Logos for WEDO and Recourse along the bottom.
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
🌟 Same mission. Fresh look. Today, we’re launching an updated website and a refreshed visual identity that reflect where our work is now and where feminist climate and environmental justice are going next. Explore the updated site: wedo.org
Our new website is live! wedo.org
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
📢 Join @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social for the launch of the 2025 Feminist Critical Trends Report & a strategy session on feminist economic + climate justice. 🗓 25 Feb, 2-4pm GMT 🌍 EN/FR/ES/AR Register: bit.ly/TrendsLaunch2025 #FeministEconomics #ClimateJustice #EconomicJustice #FeministEvent
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The Women’s Major Group, with 566 organisations & 697 individuals, issued a feminist statement warning that powerful Member States are using non-payment of obligations as political leverage, placing the #UnitedNations at risk amid escalating global crises. #PayUp #Multilateralism #HumanRights
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Press release: 1,200+ Feminist Organisations and Allies Call on Major Powers to Pay Up and Defend the United Nations - Women's Major Group
Calls on all United Nations' members to fulfil their financial obligations and reject the use of non-payment as political leverage.
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Join our Feminist Trends Report Launch Webinar on Wed., Feb. 25 to explore a snapshot of the challenges & progress in moving towards feminist economic & ecological justice. Register: bit.ly/Trends2025Webinar
WEBINAR — Feminist Critical Trends Report Launch & Strategy Session

Feb 25, 2026 | 9-11AM ET // 14:00-16:00 UTC

Register: bit.ly/Trends2025Webinar
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
🚨 Feminist civil society is raising the alarm about the imminent financial collapse of the United Nations. A weakened UN threatens feminist gains, multilateralism, democracy, and human rights amid escalating global crises. #DefendMultilateralism #PayUp
UN FACES IMMINENT FINANCIAL COLLAPSE — Member States must pay up. Sign on!Core UN operations could be disrupted by mid-2026:
1. Under-funding is a political tool. Member States are using deliberate non-payment as leverage against global governance, democracy, and human rights.
2. More than 95% of what is owed to the UN’s regular budget is owed by the United States.
3. Only 55 of 193 Member States have paid their assessed contributions 
in full.A weakened UN threatens feminist gains and undermines systems that people rely on for protection, accountability, and global cooperation. The erosion of multilateral institutions deepens insecurity and shifts risks and costs onto people.
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Today, govts meet in D.C. for a “Critical Minerals Summit” focused on transatlantic cooperation to secure lithium, cobalt & other so-called “critical” minerals for the #EnergyTransition. As priorities are set, we ask: Who benefits? Who bears the cost? Whose voices are deliberately excluded? (1/5)
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
“The power of our people is alive in this process.” The new #COP30 Belém #GenderActionPlan (GAP) & #BelémActionMechanism exist because feminists, trade unions, Indigenous Peoples, youth & environmental defenders refused to give up. These outcomes contain hard-won tools. 👉 Read our full statement:
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Belém: Feminist Power Delivered — But the Process Failed to Meet the Moment - WEDO
“The power of our people is alive in this process.”  The new Belém Gender Action Plan (GAP) and the Belém Action Mechanism (i.e. a mandate to deliver a mechanism to support just transition) exist beca...
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
🌿 WEDO's Alex Gordon gives a live update from #COP30 on where things stand with Adaptation and why this is such a critical topic for feminist climate justice! #Adaptation #FeministClimateJustice #GlobalGoalOnAdaptation #AdaptationIndicators #BelemCOP
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
We need to "deliver a coherent & resourced Gender Action Plan. That's ... the only GAP we want in Belém." - Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland, Member of @theelders.bsky.social From press conference: Delivering a Gender Action Plan at COP30 – Current State of Play ▶️ bit.ly/GAP-Press
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
As week 2 of #COP30 kicks off, feminists, Indigenous Peoples, youth, environmental movements, trade unions, & more are holding their breath to see if the climate negotiations can finally deliver something that makes a just transition. Learn more: bit.ly/3XAsinX #JustTransition #BAM
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
💪 Feminists Demand #ClimateJustice! WEDO and the WGC took to the streets of #Belém with Brazilian feminists, Indigenous Peoples, Quilombolas, campesinas & other regional voices to demand a #GenderJustTransition in first march outside the #COP30 venue since COP29. #PeoplesMarchCOP30
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Join us tomorrow at #COP30 to meet the women safeguarding the world's most vital biomes: the Guardiãs da Terra. 🌱 Hear their stories, their solutions, and their calls for the resources and political will needed to keep their territories alive. 📅 14 November 🕐 13:30 PM 📍 Press Conference Room 2
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Nov. 13 at #COP30, join us as we draw connections between #Patriarchy, #Militarism, #Colonialism, an ethic of #Care & a gender-just approach: Feminist Analysis of #JustTransition | 16:00–17:00 | ILO Pavilion amwaafrika.bsky.social christianaiduk.bsky.social menafem.bsky.social #GenderJustTransition
Side Event — co-conveners: Akina Mama wa Afrika, Christian Aid, MENAFem

Feminist Analysis of Just Transition
13 November, 16:00-17:00
ILO Pavilion
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Negotiations for a renewed #GenderActionPlan kicked off yesterday at #COP30. Governments have the opportunity to make #GenderEquality central to climate action. No GAP will be revolutionary on its own, but if done right, it can be a catalyst for change: bit.ly/49bz1vJ
"Our world today is built on systems that extract from both people and the planet … We understand that transformation requires both resistance and reconstruction: dismantling what perpetuates harm and reshaping what can still serve justice."

Power in Practice at COP30: How the Gender Action Plan Can Shift the System
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
The WEDO team is in #Belém for #COP30 to advocate for systemic, cohesive & gender-responsive climate policy decisions. To prepare, members of the WEDO delegation share what they expect from the #GenderEquality, #JustTransition, #ClimateFinance, and #Adaptation negotiation items at COP30.
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What's At Stake At COP30
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Join us Sun., Nov. 9 at 4 pm ET for a media briefing on What's At Stake for #GenderEquality at #COP30 — Renewing the #UNFCCC #GenderActionPlan: (All registrants will receive the recording & materials.) 👉 Register & learn more: bit.ly/4ozg4rM #Belem #GenderJustTransition #GenderJusticeDay
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Media Briefing: What’s at Stake for Gender Equality at COP30 - WEDO
Ahead of COP30 in Belém, the Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) invites you to a 30-minute virtual media briefing on the upcoming renewal of the UNFCCC Gender Action Plan (GAP), a...
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The Global Feminist Convening in Rabat in May resulted in the Rabat Declaration and Roadmap: a feminist economic and climate justice advocacy agenda and a comprehensive vision for solidarity, liberation & sovereignty of the Global Majority. Endorse it at: rabat.wedo.org @menafem.bsky.social
Endorse the Rabat Declaration for feminist Economic and Environmental Transformation: rabat.wedo.orgRabat Declaration for Feminist Economic and Environmental Transformation —
The peoples of the Global South, women and marginalized groups in particular, are facing profound crises rooted in the economic and political domination of patriarchal, imperialist, colonial capitalism.

We, activists from the Middle East, North Africa, and the Global South, declare our commitment to a radical transformation of the global system grounded in economic, social, and environmental justice, and guided by a democratic feminist vision that centers women and gender-diverse people.
Our Demands:
1. Global South sovereignty and alternative economies rooted in gender justice and equality
2. Break the shackles of debt and financial imperialism
3. Redistribute wealth and finance social services through fair taxation
4. Climate justice through grants—No Green Colonialism!
5. Demilitarization and liberation, in Palestine, Sudan, Yemen and everywhere 
6. Respect the rights of migrants, refugees, and displaced peopleWe urge all progressive, democratic forces and peoples to unite in this global struggle to shape a world rooted in justice and sustainability — liberated from all forms of domination, exploitation, and colonial control.

Endorse the Declaration: rabat.wedo.org
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
🎉 New Critical Conversation with Thoko Madonko, feminist economist and public educator, whose work on care economies, public services, and gender-responsive budgeting, particularly in the Southern African context. ▶️ Watch the interview at: wedo.org/conversations #FeministEconomics #ClimateJustice
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
More mining to produce cleaner energy will mean more abuses, unless action is taken at the #UNFCCC. 200 CSOs call on #COP30 leaders to ensure strong, inclusive governance of transition minerals! 👉 bit.ly/46VmcUR #JustMinerals #JustTransition #EnvironmentalJustice #ClimateJustice
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A global call for equity in mineral value chains at COP30 - Resource Justice Network
Read the Portuguese version here. 13 October 2025 To all States Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Excellencies, “The critical minerals that power the clean energy revolution are often found in countries that have long ...
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
From colonization to excessive carbon emissions, the Global North has created the #ClimateCrisis. People & communities in the South are paying the price. It’s time for the Global North to #PayUp in public, grant-based #ClimateFinance, free from conditionalities, new & additional. #ClimateFinanceNow
Stop the harm! Cancel the Debt! Reparations and Just Transition Now! Climate Finance now! Our people are drowning, burning, starving. No more excuses!
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European Network on Debt and Development - Eurodad @eurodadnews.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
And read more on @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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Groups blast lack of progress on debt issues during South Africa's G20 presidency
A total of 165 organizations on Monday criticized South Africa for failing to make progress on debt sustainability issues during its presidency of the G20 major economies and urged it to push for reforms before it hands over to the U.S. on December 1.
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European Network on Debt and Development - Eurodad @eurodadnews.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
South Africa’s #G20 presidency has the potential to catalyse meaningful global #debt reform, but so far nothing tangible has been achieved. 1️⃣6️⃣5️⃣ organisations have called on @cyrilramaphosabsky.bsky.social to take action on the #debtcrisis. Read the call here➡️ www.eurodad.org/letter_to_sa...
While this year's G20 has been put forward as an 'African G20', there is no evidence that any progress has been made on the debt crisis facing Africa and many other countries worldwide.
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Read our new brief examining the gendered impacts of World Bank & IMF policy in the MENA region: bit.ly/MENA-Brief By advocating for gender-responsive approaches & calling for decolonization of economic structures, we endeavor to advance #GenderEquality, #SocialJustice & #SustainableDevelopment
New Advocacy Brief — The Gendered Impacts of World Bank and IMF Policy in the MENA Region By MENA Fem and WEDObit.ly/MENA-BriefAvailable in English, Arabic, and French.
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
As World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings begin today in DC, the Bretton Woods Project has released a brief analyzing the IMF’s evolving approach to gender. While there's been an increase in narratives around social & gender impacts, current policy responses are inadequate. 📄: bit.ly/42C1mHs
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Brace for impact: Social and gender inequality in IMF surveillance
New BWP briefing on IMF Surveillance finds IMF's core policy direction has remained consistent over a 14-year period and is identical to that previously described as “structural adjustment”.
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
"The Fund should recognize that #LossesAndDamages are human rights violations ... [and] must urgently develop policies to do no harm and ensure inclusive, participatory & accountable operations that protect ecosystems, #HumanRights & include Indigenous People." bit.ly/3VWSpVy
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Mwanahamisi Singano at the Board Meeting for the Fund for responding to Loss and Damage
During a dialogue between the Board and civil society organizations, Mwanahamisi outlined 3 implications of the International Court of Justice's advisory opinion on the Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change.
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Join us on October 2 for a dialogue & call to action for feminist economic alternatives that prioritize wellbeing and the planet. Register: forms.office.com/e/sHJJrahKgg
Flipping the script — Feminst Alternatives to Broken Economies

Octover 2, 12-13:30 UTC+1
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
*NEW* research finds the U.S. federal government hands fossil fuel billionaires $35B in annual tax breaks + giveaways. Instead of ensuring affordable renewable energy for all, the U.S. is paying Big Oil to torch our climate + poison communities. oilchange.org/paying-for-climate-ch…
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Paying for Climate Chaos: U.S. Federal Subsidies for Fossil Fuel Production - Oil Change International
“Paying for Climate Chaos” reveals the staggering scope of federal government subsidies for fossil fuel production, est. at a whopping $34.8 billion per year.
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Join us for #GlobalWeekofAction (Sept 15–21) under the #DrawTheLine banner, when people rise up to demand system change: for #GenderJustice, #CleanEnergy, #HumanRights, and #ClimateFutures that work for communities. #FeministFuturesNow #FeministClimateJustice
Draw the Line — Join Us During the Global Week of Action (September 15-21)
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
This September 17, we rise to resist, reclaim & reimagine our futures together with the Women & Gender Constituency. 💪 Our power lies in collective feminist action that creates change. We resist rollbacks through solidarity, community, and collective feminist power. #DrawTheLine #FeministFuturesNow
“As rights are rolled back and climate disasters intensify, feminists refuse to surrender to militarization, extractivism, and corporate capture. On September 17, we draw the line for bodily autonomy, racial justice, gender equality, and intersectionality. We fight for gender-just transition and regenerative economies.”

Mwanahamisi Singano
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ClimateActionNetwork @canclimateaction.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
@mishysingano.bsky.social @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social: "Feminists are not only here to #DrawTheLine, but also to give ourselves permission to reimagine. As feminists, we know another world is possible. Feminist movements have always transformed despair into power, and resistance into renewal.
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Join us on Tuesday as we, in partnership with @menafem.bsky.social, officially launch the Rabat Roadmap and hear from a powerful lineup of speakers, as part of the #GlobalWeekOfAction and #DrawTheLine campaign. 📅 Tuesday, 18 September 🕐 13:30-15:00 UTC+1 🔗 Register: bit.ly/RabatLaunch
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
🌍 Join the Women & Gender Constituency in Addis Ababa on September 7! African women leaders, innovators & changemakers will gather on a special Gender Day to spotlight women’s leadership, solutions & demands for a gender-just climate future. Register: forms.gle/aJyVfNzsG8oUD4yz9
Women and Gender Constituency — From Ground to Global: African Women's Power in Climate Action

Date: 7 September 2025
Venue: Best Western Pearl, Addis Ababa, EthiopiaWomen and Gender Constituency — Du Local au Global: Le Pouvoir des Femmes Africaines dans l'Action Climatique

7 Septembre 2025
Lieu: Best Western Pearl, Addis-Ababa, Éthiopie
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Without deliberate efforts to embed #HumanRights + #GenderEquality, the #EnergyTransition risks replicating the same patterns of harm seen under the #FossilFuel paradigm. Register for the virtual discussion on Sept. 4: bit.ly/3JCPNsX
Virtual Event — 4 September 14:00 (UTC)

Sparking Debate: Feminist Visions for a Just Energy Future
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
📊 Join the Gender and Environment Data Alliance (GEDA) this Friday, Sept. 5, on the sidelines of Africa Climate Week in Addis Ababa, for an exploration of how gender and environment data are crucial to effective and inclusive climate action. RSVP by Sept. 4, at: bit.ly/GEDA-ACW
Africa Climate Week 2025 | Imagining Resilient & Inclusive Futures: An Exploration of Gender Data for Climate Action

Friday, September 5 | 4-7:30 pm EAT
Best Western Plus Pearl, Addis Ababa

RSVP required by September 4: bit.ly/GEDA-ACW
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
"There should be a mechanism to ensure that justice starts from the extraction point." – Mela Chiponda, in our latest Critical Conversation » Critical Minerals: Extracting Injustice from "Clean" Energy ▶️ Watch: wedo.org/conversations #GreenEnergy #JustEnergy #EnergyJustice #CriticalMinerals
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Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights @giescr.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
The global energy system has long failed people and the planet. 🌍 Reliant on fossil fuels, it has driven the climate emergency, human rights violations and entrenched inequalities. ⚡ It's time to spark debate on a different future. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
📊 At #HLPF side-event in July, GEDA brought together a diverse group to discuss #GenderEnvironmentData for inclusive & #SustainableDevelopment. Participants stressed the importance of evidence in making a case for reform & affirmed that communities impacted by climate crises are agents of change.
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
💬 New Critical Conversations — We spoke with Mela Chiponda, human rights defender and #EnergyJustice advocate based Zimbabwe, who has worked for decades challenging exploitative mining projects and their impacts on communities. ▶️ Watch the full interview: wedo.org/conversations #CriticalMinerals
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Dear @cyrilramaphosabsky.bsky.social, With the G20 Finance Ministers meeting in Durban, this is the moment for decisive action that history will remember. You have the power to lead a bold response. #G20SouthAfrica must lead the way in creating an economy for the many, not the few.
Dear President Ramaphosa,

As you hold the Presidency of the G20, the group of the world’s richest nations, the inequality crisis is quickly deepening. This crisis is not an accident, but the outcome of a system built to favour the very few at the top at the expense of the rest. People across the world are speaking up and the pressure for change is growing. They are no longer waiting for world leaders to fix the inequality crisis. They are drawing a red line to the era of billionaires. It is high time that the G20 responds with decisive action. 

We write as people on these frontlines of inequality and climate breakdown across the Global South. We draw the red line to this era of extreme wealth and rule by the rich and powerful. We draw the line because this is no longer a time for half measures and empty words.

Members of the G20 have the ability to drive real change. Yet G20 countries have continued to look away from the deep, structural transformations the world urgently needs.This Presidency of the G20 held for the fourth year in a row in the Global South — and now for the first time on African soil — brings the neocolonial nature of the global finance architecture, and its huge impacts on global inequality into sharp view. In the current polycrisis, the global majority are bearing the brunt of this system that has neither been structurally nor economically decolonized. 

The Presidency of the G20 provides you with an opportunity to take truly bold steps to make the richest pay their fair share in taxes and to cancel the debt. 

There is an urgent need to transform the current regressive taxation system that has shifted the burden from the corporations and wealthy class to the poor class. The debt crisis is also placing crippling burdens on peoples in the Global South who are living at the sharp end of inequality and are facing the brunt of the climate crisis.Predatory loan practices, which has financiers borrowing to already highly indebted Global South countries at higher interest, is deepening this global divide. Over 3.4 billion people now live in a country
where their governments are caught between meeting rising interest payments or staffing hospitals, building schools and investing in climate-resilient infrastructure.

We urge you to guide the G20 in agreeing on:
1. Taxing the super-rich to redistribute extreme wealth and fund essential services.

2. Cancelling debts that are crippling countries’ ability to invest in people and the planet.

3. Establishing new global financial rules — reflecting the aspirations of people everywhere — that put people and the planet, not profit, at the centre.

As G20 Finance Ministers meet between July 17-18 for the last time ahead of November’s leaders summit, now is the time for bold action that history will judge as a legacy worth leaving.
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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
"We don’t need 1 mythic number to make the case for gender-responsive #ClimateAction. The truth is compelling enough. #Disasters – like #ClimateChange itself – are not gender-neutral ... When we understand this, we can build better policies to respond." Read more: bit.ly/Myth14x
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