Financing the Just Transition

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Democracy in the context of a Post-Genocide Society

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Polycrisis and Undermining of Democracy

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Land Squeeze: What is driving unprecedented pressure on global farmland and what can be done to achieve equitable access to land?

Land is critical to the lives, livelihoods, and food security of millions of people across the world. But a series of unprecedented pressures on global farmland are driving a land squeeze. We are seeing a surge in land inequality, rural poverty, food insecurity, and rural exodus – risking a tipping point for smallholder agriculture. Join us for this online event to launch the latest IPES-Food report “LAND SQUEEZE” and a dialogue with people giving testimony on their struggles for land on the ground.

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Zimbabwe’s Lithium Mining Sector: energy transition and prospects for socio-economic development

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Transnational Governance Gaps in Corporate Supply Chains: The TotalEnergies Case

On December 9th and 10th 2023, for the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, RLS and Civic City are organizing the 3rd Night of Global Social Rights. Join us for 24 hours of conversation on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Dates: 9th to 10th December 2023 Times: 17:00 to 17:00 CET (please feel to change according to your time schedule) Place: Online During the 75 years of its application, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has proven to be an effective reference in the search for equality and respect for human dignity, but at the same time, it has proven to be a perfectible tool, whose extension by other declarations, or better still, binding instruments, is the condition of its relevance and its pertinence in the fight against the new forms of violation of human rights and threats to human life on earth: the effects of fossil-fueled capitalism on climate change, the new forms of slavery, the renewed strategies of exclusion and discrimination of sexually and culturally diverse populations, and a long list of challenges of our present. How then to use the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the face of the new challenges facing humanity? How does this Declaration challenge us and challenges global governance and social organizations to continue seeking solutions to the problems of the 21st century? How can we complement the declaration with other instruments to advance human rights, and through the United Nations reach a horizon of recognition and inclusion of all the world's diversity? In this sense, the 3rd Night of Global Social Rights will bring together human rights defenders, social organizations, academics and representatives of international organizations from around the world for a 24-hour conversation aimed to seek answers to these and other questions, with the objective of valuing the achievements of the global efforts in the defense of human rights, and of proposing actions to increase the effectiveness and scope of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights instruments in response to the new challenges facing humanity. The full programme will be published shortly. Register for the event: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88375444580

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EUROPEAN DOUBLE STANDARDS: HOW FOREIGN PESTICIDES ARE POISINING AFRICA: Pesticide regulations in African countries and how to tighten them with examples from South Africa, Tunisia and Zimbabwe.

Most African countries have experienced increasing agricultural intensification, which has been accompanied by a growing use of pesticides. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has estimated that pesticide use in 46 sub-Saharan African increased by at least 1.5 times between 2006 and 2019. European companies like Bayer, Syngenta and BASF produce and export pesticides which contain active ingredients that are banned in the European Union because of their adverse impacts on human health and the environment. It is thus not a coincidence that the largest share of the 385 million people who experience pesticide poisoning every year, live in the global South, of which, a significant proportion are farm workers and their communities who exposed. What national and international regulations and protocols are African countries party to? To what extent are African countries compliant to these regulations? How can we use these regulations to campaign for an end to double standards in the international trade with pesticides? How can we campaign as African civil society for an end to the double standards? Speakers: Debbie Muir, UnPoison, South Africa Dina Ndeleni, Farmwoman activist, South Africa Austin Muswere, GAPWUZ, Zimbabwe Semia Gharbi, Association d'Education Environnementale pour les Futures Générations (AEEFG), Tunisia Moderators: Colette Solomon, Women on Farms Project, South Africa Jan Urhahn, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Southern Africa The online event will be held in English, French and Portuguese with simultaneous interpretation. The event is jointly organized by Women on Farms Project (WFP) and the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Southern Africa.

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Quiet Rebels: Underground Women Miners and Refusal as Resistance

Please join us for the next talk in the DM7 series of monthly online talks by contributors to the forthcoming DM Volume 7: Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19: Transformative Resistance and Social Reproduction.

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The Last Seed - Film screening and reception

Join us for the Johannesburg screening of The Last Seed, a documentary feature film on the past and future of African food and agriculture. Through a symphony of evocative music, mesmerizing dance, and captivating visuals, the film delves into the profound themes of seed sovereignty and the delicate balance between humanity and the planet. Witness the struggles and triumphs of African small-scale food producers as they navigate the complex web of science, politics, and economics surrounding the corporate capture crisis. Enlightening insights from experts shed light on the perilous state of our food systems and the urgent need for change. Farmers from Senegal, South Africa, and Tanzania talk about the sustainability and adaptability of their farming practices and share wisdom worth discovering.

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Introducing a (Universal) Basic Income Grant in South Africa

In the context of widespread poverty, unemployment, and the need for wealth redistribution and social redress, the justification for a BIG are especially relevant today.

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Food Crisis: Rising Prices, Hunger, and how to fix them

In this online event for policy-shapers and civil society, leading food security experts take stock of the critical factors fanning the flames of global hunger. And they provide concrete policy prescriptions of what can be done to relieve this food price crisis now, and to create more resilient food and agricultural systems in the long term.

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Post-State of the Nation debate

In partnership with the Mail & Guardian, we invite you to an in-depth, interactive debate in response to President Ramaphosa's State of the Nation Address. Mail & Guardian editors will engage with leading political and economic experts, as the contents of the SONA are unpacked.

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Mapping the world of casualised work and struggle in SA

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Post-budget debate in the context of S.A.'s COVID-19 fiscal deficit

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State of the Nation Address Critical Thinking Forum

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Challenging Corporate Power, Traditional Leaders, and the State...

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Disrupting Institutionalised Patriarchy and New Forms of Organising

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People's dialogue with Traditional leadership and the Zvishavane

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The German Factor (re. Conflict & Genocide in Rwanda)

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Public History & Archiving Struggle from Below

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Through the Lens of My Camera

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Gender Inequality in Trade Unions

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Race, Identity and Your Vote

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Racism After Apartheid

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100 Years of Rosa Luxemburg's Marxism

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Critical Thinking Forum: State of the Nation Address

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Exhibition Opening: Letters of Stone

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Invitation for bids: Film production service provider agreement

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Agro-ecology for the 21st Century Conference

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Office re-opens for 2019

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Office closes for summer

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Day of Reconciliation (South Africa)

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Islanders / Ilhéus, Ilha de Moçambique launch

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Islanders / Ilhéus, Maputo Launch

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