African Climate Stories

How creative leadership makes sustainability work across the creative and film industries

Tuesday, 4th November 2025, 6:30pm
Zoku, Perspektivstrasse 6, 1020 Vienna

in cooperation with D–Arts Projektbüro für Diversität and the International Screen Institute

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International climate finance in times of uncertainty

Is there any way forward for global climate action?

In the context of political uncertainty, rising nationalism and climate skepticism, are past commitments for climate finance and global climate action still realistic? Can there be any positive perspectives for the COP30…

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Iran zwischen Repression und Hoffnung: Zivilgesellschaft kämpft für Gerechtigkeit

Von Daniela Sepehri

Trotz der zunehmenden Härte, mit der das Regime gegen sie vorgeht, halten die Proteste für die Rechte von Frauen, Minderheiten und Arbeiter*innen im Iran an. Dabei drohen den Aktivist*innen Inhaftierung und Todesstrafe.

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How Chemotherapy Indicates Injustice in Northeast Syria

By Simav Hasan

The structural discrimination Syrian Kurds have faced over the last 50 years includes life-threatening barricades to medical treatment. Can new experiments in local governance finally provide justice?

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The Missing Crime: Femicide in African Legal Systems

By Wangui Gitahi

Femicide is still not sufficiently recognized as a systemic problem that needs specific legislation across African jurisdictions. Feminist lawyers use strategic litigation to fight for better protection.

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Kabul 2025, © Aadil Ahmad

Back to Oppression: Misogyny and Hardship Define Life for Deportees in Afghanistan

By Ali Ahmad

In recent months, Iran and Pakistan have forcibly returned millions of Afghans to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan—against the backdrop of a worsening crisis in the country.

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Pathways to Peace: Legal Accountability and Feminist Peacebuilding

Panel discussion on feminist peace and security policy

Wednesday, 10th September 2025, 4pm - 6pm
in cooperation with the Swedish Embassay in Vienna

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Reproductive Justice in Africa: Lessons from Kenyan Courts

By Leah Aoko Kanyangi

Strategic litigation on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Kenia has had broader effects by setting legal precedents, influencing policy reform, and shifting public discourse on reproductive justice.

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Centring Black and African Perspectives in Media

Report on the Africa Club 24th June 2025

The Africa Club is an informal discussion forum for people interested in African issues. Participants come from public institutions, the African diaspora, civil society, academia and the media. Topics are current developments…

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“I didn’t choose to be an activist, resistance is the only option I have to survive in Tunisia”.

by Miriam Mona Mukalazi & Isabella Costa (VIDC Global Dialogue), based on an interview with Rayhan Jlidi

Black African refugees, migrants and asylum seekers are denied basic human rights and have become victims of state violence in Tunesia, financed and promoted by the EU.

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