12.09.2025 –, Zirkuszelt
Sprache: English
Resisting power in East Africa for climate and human rights justice: The workshop will cover perspectives from Uganda, Kenya, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania. It will share insights on East African fights against big corporations linked to the global North and show more inclusive ways to collaborate and offer a space for casual discussions in a free style manner.
Widerstand gegen die Macht in Ostafrika für Klima- und Menschenrechtsgerechtigkeit: Der Vortrag behandelt Perspektiven aus Uganda, Kenia, der Demokratischen Republik Kongo und Tansania. Sie vermitteln Einblicke in den Kampf Ostafrikas gegen große, mit dem globalen Norden verbundene Konzerne, zeigen inklusivere Wege der Zusammenarbeit auf und bieten Raum für ungezwungene Diskussionen.
The session will feature fights from Uganda, Kenya, DRC, and Tanzania, sharing firsthand experiences of corporate exploitation, with a primary focus on extractive tactics of corporations and how they affect communities like a virus.
For Uganda, the discussion will center on the EACOP where oil development has affected people, brought about human rights violations and more harm.
Tanzania’s perspective will include indegenous fights against land grabbing due to carbon credit projects.
Kenya's part will feature some success stories against coal mining in Lamu and also threats to indegenous lands by carbom vretdi projects.
In case of DRC, it will feature the hidden costs for the energy transition and the cost of extarction of oil block by European Transnational Companies.
Additionally, topics like energy transition, Gender Equality and Climate and Climate Mobility will be addressed too.
Born from a friendship between activists in Uganda and Germany, SoNo Collective is redefining how climate justice movements collaborate across continents. We are building an assembly that centers Global South perspectives and challenges colonial patterns in activism so as to center inclusive collaboration that is just and fair.