AWID Forum 2024: Marginalized Voices Challenging Global Power

By Nadja Schuster (VIDC Global Dialogue)

The AWID forum 2024 showcased critical feminist perspectives that are usually underrepresented. 4,000 grassroots activists and scholars, predominantly from the Global South, gathered in person and virtually.

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EU Sicherheitspolitik im Umbruch: Was bleibt für die feministische Friedensförderung in Afrika?

Von Miriam Mona Mukalazi

Die EU war ein wichtiger Geldgeber für “Gender, Frieden und Sicherheit” in Afrika. Die neue Sicherheitspolitik bedeutet eine Verschiebung hin zu Aufrüstung und strategischer Unabhängigkeit von den USA.

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Von Peking 1995 bis New York 2025: 30 Jahre Frauenrechte im Wandel

Von Gertrude Eigelsreiter-Jashari

Die Pekinger Erklärung und Aktionsplattform vereinten 189 Regierungen für eine gerechte, diskriminierungs-, und gewaltfreie Welt für Frauen und Mädchen. 30 Jahre später gibt es trotz Fortschritte dringenden Handlungsbedarf.

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Climate Change: Solutions in Times of Crises

Tools, Trade-offs and Global Responsibilities

Report of the panel discussion that took place on 26 November 2024 at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna.

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Towards tax justice: African Group's pivotal role in UN Tax Convention negotiations

By Aleksandra Wojewska

The African Group, as well as the civil society networks, see the shift of global tax governance from the OECD to the UN as a necessary step to correct structural imbalances between the Global North and the Global South.

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Tax Justice?! Global tax governance and the role of taxes for social-ecological transformation

Report from 16 May 2024

Margit Schratzenstaller and Claus Staringer discussed environmental taxes, the global minimum tax as well as the role of the OECD and the UN with members of Tax Justice-Europe and a broader audience.

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A Feminist Foreign Policy - real change for women and girls

By Ann Linde, former Foreign Minister of Sweden, FEPS Special Advisor on Foreign Affairs

In her speech at a VIDC event in the Austrian Parliament Ann Linde advocates for a Feminist Foreign Policy since women and girls – half of the population - still do not enjoy the same rights, representation and resources.

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Climate lawsuits can make a real difference

by Lorena Olarte

Strategic climate litigation operates as a multifaceted approach to bring about systemic change. Globally about 2,500 climate lawsuits have been filed. Communities mostly affected claim compensation.

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Can private finance save the planet?

Exploring the role of private finance in green transitions in Africa.

Report of the webinar from 24 October 2023, with Joseph Matola (SAIIA, South Africa), Ann Pettifor (political economist and author, UK) und Prof. Fadhel Kaboub (Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, Kenya).

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A Letter from Yene

A letter from Yene & Terra Mater - Mother Land

Film screening and discussion as part of this human world

Tuesday, 5 December 2023, 18:00 - 20:00 hrs
Top Kino, Großer Saal, Rahlgasse 1, 1060 Vienna
Film screening and discussion about the effects of the climate crisis on the African continent.

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