Hear from Dorothee Lisenga, advocate for women’s land rights and winner of the 2018 WEDO Gender Justice Climate Solutions Award and Samuel Yagase, community leader mobilizing rural communities for human rights and self determination in the face of extractive industries in the Congo Basin. 

 

The online forum will address:

DRC government’s auctioning of oil blocks in the rainforest

Preserving the ‘Carbon Bomb’ of the peatlands

The responsibility of western nations in curbing pollution and delivering on their financial commitments to preserve the rainforest