EVENT SERIES ON DEMOCRACY, SUSTAINABILITY AND FEMINISM

OUR VOICES – OUR PLANET project has started the next round. In 2024 and 2025, various educational events will take place that deal with new perspectives for democracy and sustainability, including feminist perspectives, in global dialog and global learning.

Education activists from the Global North and Global South will why it is worth to have a look at democracy and sustainability from a feminist point of view. The BMZ’s strategy for a feminist development policy serves as a frame of reference.

The next event within this series is an interantional online discussion event on Beyond Sustainability. Giving Rights to Nature. Towards a non-human-centred practice of making justice.  It will take place on January 30, 2024, 3-5 pm CET online via Zoom. In this event, we will discuss with  In this international discussion event, we will talk about these and other questions with Christian Cray (German Network of the Rights of Nature), Claudia Gimena Roa Avendaño (Fundaexpresion) and participants from many different parts of the world the idea of defining ecosystems, habitats or animal and plant species as holder of legal rights. We will discuss among others the following questions: Where is the practical added value for an effective protection of the living systems on planet earth in times of crisis? Will it inflict constant conflicts with human rights or interests? In how far can the change of a human-centred rights concept to a more-than-human one be a winner’s game also for democracy, justice and equality, beyond the ecological dimension?

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