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Equal Rights for Women is a major category, like energy or climate change, of sustainability and the voices in this collection are of the present and the past.

If we don't address human rights and social justice of which the sustainability keywords and phrases include children's rights and welfare; human trafficking, slavery, and women's rights and roles, then as David Korten points out, we will not be able to come to terms with the limits of the planet and not even technology will be able to save us.

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Opening Keynote and Panel 1: Women on the Frontlines WECAN Assembly March 31, 2026

April 09, 2026

On March 31, 2026, the Women’s Earth and Climate Network (WECAN) hosted the "Women’s Momentum Assembly for a Just Fossil Fuel Phaseout." This virtual global event gathered diverse women leaders, policymakers, and advocates to discuss challenges and solutions for an equitable transition away from fossil fuels, in preparation for a historic government meeting in Colombia. Learn more about the assembly here.

WECAN Executive Director Osprey Orielle Lake delivered the opening keynote, followed by a powerful panel, "Women on the Frontlines: Ending Extraction of People and Planet," featuring Indigenous leaders and climate activists from around the globe.

Additionally, explore WECAN's report on the gendered and racial impacts of the fossil fuel industry here.

Panel 3 of 3: Building a Just Transition, and Alysia Reiner – WECAN March 31 Assembly
Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International Live Stream
Women’s Momentum Assembly for a Just Fossil Fuel Phaseout – March 31, 2026
Nell Bernstein on the Successful Fight to Close Youth Prisons
COP26 Press Conference: Women for Climate Justice Leading Solutions on the Frontlines of Climate
COP26 Press Conference: Report Back from the Rights of Nature Tribunal in Glasgow
COP26 Press Conference: Accelerating a Feminist Green New Deal
COP26 Press Conference: Indigenous Women Leaders Send Urgent Call to Action for the Amazon in Crisis
Women Rising for Climate Justice and Future Generations
Building Systemic Change: Frontline Women-Led Solutions for Climate Justice, March 24, 2022
Implementing the Escazú Agreement: Opportunities and Implications for Women Land Defenders
Women Leading Efforts to Uphold Indigenous Rights & Due Diligence with Financial Institutions
Osprey Orielle Speaks at the Scottish Parliament during COP26 - 2021
Osprey Orielle Lake Speaks Out at High-Level UN Event - October 26, 2021
Rights of Nature: A Systemic Solution to the Climate Crisis - COP29 Press Conference
JOIN US! Global Women's Assembly For Climate Justice, June 23-28, 2025
UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues 2025: Protecting Land, Rights, and Future Generations
Women Leading a Just Transition - COP29 Press Conference
Women Leading Fossil Fuel Phaseout and A Just Transition - COP29 Press Conference
Indigenous Women from Brazil: Calls for Climate Action on the Road to COP30 - COP29 Press Conference
Scenarios Forum Presentation by Osprey Orielle Lake
African Feminist Perspectives on COP27 and Beyond | WECAN Climate Justice Forum
Women for Climate Justice - 2023
Uplifting Women Human Rights Defenders and Advancing the Escazu Agreement
Indigenous Women from North America Defending Biodiversity, Human Rights, and our Global Climate
Indigenous Women Upholding Indigenous Rights and Knowledge, and Leading Climate Solutions - UNPFII
WECAN Announcement: The Ponca Earthen Lodge Project for Food Sovereignty and Safe Harbor
Transforming Global Economies for People, Planet, and a Just Transition - Climate Week 2023
Women Ending the Era of Fossil Fuels and Leading a Just Transition - Climate Week 2023
How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis
Women for Climate Justice Leading Protection of Water - Virtual Event March 2023
Women for Climate Justice Leading Solutions - COP27 Press Conference
Rights of Nature is a Systemic Solution to the Climate Crisis - COP27 Press Conference
Women Leading Fossil Fuel Divestment and Resistance | Climate Justice Forum
Thilmeeza Hussain and Osprey Orielle Lake Conversation during Climate Week 2022
During this event, grassroots, Indigenous, Black, Brown, and frontline women and gender diverse l
Women Leading Fossil Fuel Divestment and A Just Transition - COP27 Press Conference
Indigenous Women from the Amazon: Calls for Urgent Action - COP27 Press Conference
Accelerating a Feminist Green New Deal - COP27 Press Conference
Women for Climate Justice Leading Solutions on the Frontlines of Climate Change - COP27 Side Event
Global Voices and Women-Led Calls to Action in Response to COP27
During COP28, WECAN hosted a series of events highlighting the powerful voices of women leaders i
Global Women's Assembly for Climate Justice: Path to COP30 and Beyond - DAY 1
Regenerative and Just Energy For All – Panel 17 of 25
Women Parliamentarians for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty – Panel 18 of 25
On Fire! Youth Leading the Way – Panel 16 of 25
Divestment Movements & Transitioning Away From Fossil Fuels — Panel 15 of 25
Grounding Principles For Climate Justice, Rights, & Democracy with a Special Opening â&#1
Impacts of the Fossil Fuel Industry in North America — Panel 12 of 25
Climate Finance for Climate Justice — Panel 5 of 25
Just Transitions — Panel 10 of 25
Women in Action for Climate Justice & a Just Transition: Path to COP30 & Beyond - Climate Week 2025
Women for Climate Justice Leading Solutions on the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis | WECAN COP30
Women on the Frontlines of Climate Action | WECAN COP30 Press Conference
Women Leading Fossil Fuel Phaseout and a Just Transition | WECAN COP30 Press Conference
Indigenous Women from the Amazon: Protect Forests & Indigenous Rights | WECAN COP30 Press Conference
Rights of Nature: A Systemic Solution to the Climate Crisis | WECAN COP30 Press Conference
Global Voices and Women-Led Calls to Action in Response to COP30
Indigenous People's Day inside #COP30!
Closing plenary of COP30 -- Daniela Durán González, Colombian Minister
Indigenous women of Sarayaku Nurturing and Restoring the Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest
Building a Healthy & Thriving Future: Food Sovereignty — Panel 7 of 25
The panel “Narratives Matter: Social Media And Stories As A Tool For Climate Action And Edu
The panel “No Greenwashing: Rejecting False Solutions to the Climate Crisis” was held
Breakthrough Journalism: Strategies For Covering the Climate Crisis – Panel 23 of 25
Rights of Nature as a Systemic Solution: Protecting & Defending the Places We Live – Panel 21 of 2
What's Ahead: Collective Action for Climate Justice: Part 2 – Panel 25 of 25
Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International's livestream
Global Women's Assembly for Climate Justice: Path to COP30 and Beyond - DAY 2
Global Women's Assembly for Climate Justice: Path to COP30 and Beyond - DAY 3
Global Women's Assembly for Climate Justice: Path to COP30 and Beyond - DAY 4
Global Women's Assembly for Climate Justice: Path to COP30 and Beyond - DAY 5
Oceans, Freshwater, and Climate – Panel 20 of 25
Implementing the Escazu Agreement: Protecting Women Land Defenders and Nature – Panel 19 of 25
The panel “Women For Forests: Protection & Reforestation: Part 1” was held on Mon
The panel “Feminist Frameworks For Global Climate Justice” was held on Monday, June 2
The panel “Rematriating the Land: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Land Back Movement”
Women for Forests: Protection & Reforestation: Part 2 — Panel 11 of 25
Global Voices for Climate Justice in a Time of Uncertainty Panel 6 of 25
The panel “Healing Justice in the Climate Crisis: Restoring Mind, Body, and Spirit” w
What's Ahead: Collective Action for Climate Justice: Part 1 – Panel 24 of 25
Indigenous Women From Brazil on the Path to COP30 – Panel 22 of 25
Global Women's Assembly for Climate Justice: Path to COP30 and Beyond - DAY 6
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Press Conference – Indigenous Women from the Amazon: Calls for Urgent Action; COP28, Saturd
Well Being Economies for People and Planet – Panel 14 of 25
Women Leading Solutions for a Healthy and Just Planet, Stockholm+50 Event
Report Launch: The Gendered and Racial Impacts of the Fossil Fuel Industry
Climate Week 2024: Women on the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis
Transforming Global Economies: From Extraction to Regeneration in a Just Transition
$Indigenous knowledge is a climate solution! At the epicenter of massive fracking in Oklahoma, Cas$
Indigenous knowledge is a climate solution! At the epicenter of massive fracking in Oklahoma, Cas
During this virtual event at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), Indigenous you
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Stop Line 5 Petition Delivery in Washington DC - March 2024
Calls for Action to End the Era of Fossil Fuels and Accelerate a Just Transition - IWD 2024
Press Conference – Accelerating Feminist Solutions to the Climate Crisis, Saturday, Decembe
Global Voices and Women-Led Calls to Action in Response to COP28
COP28: Women Implementing Climate Justice Solutions to Mitigate and Adapt to the Climate Crisis.
How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis
Indigenous Women Rising to Stop Line 5 and Protect Water, Communities & Our Climate
Women Ending the Era of Fossil Fuels & Building a Just Transition
Press Conference– Rights of Nature: A Systemic Solution to the Climate Crisis; COP28, Wedne
Rebecca Solnit: Hopelessness is a luxury
#TeamITU: Maud Abaa on building an inclusive digital future
A!oracle a Day
Scenarios Forum Presentation by Osprey Orielle Lake
Report Launch: The Gendered and Racial Impacts of the Fossil Fuel Industry
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Dr. Rim Belhassine-Cherif , Chair of NoW in ITU-T, Chief Innovation and Strategy Officer, Tunisie T&
ITU SECRETARY-GENERAL VIDEO MESSAGE: Girls in ICT Day 2023
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Empowering Women and Youth in the Face of Emerging Technologies | Lesly Goh | TEDxBostonCollege
The new generation of women climate leaders
But where are you Really from? Resolving Unconscious Bias | Rehman Abdulrehman | TEDxWpg
Women in the Workplace (2017) by Charlotte Relyea
See the results from our LeanIn.Org and McKinsey Women in the Workplace 2015 survey - insights fr
President Jimmy Carter talks about his newly released book, A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Vi
Worklife and Friendship by Ruth Ann Barrett
Crowd sourcing the feminine intelligence of the planet: Jensine Larsen
How Bella Abzug changed credit laws
Gender & IDA: Fostering gender equality and empowerment
Gender Equality by the OECD
The Equality Effect
Meet Luisa Daniel Pérez
Pro Mujer celebrates its 20th Anniversary
Equal Rights Agendment (ERA)
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Billie Jean King Congratulates Dr. Bernice Sandler
I'm Rising...by Ted Turner Laura Turner Seydel
I Am Rising a Union of Values by Herman Van Rompuy
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I Am Rising...by Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky
Eve Ensler Extends Her Gratitude
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Mary Robinson & Panel 2 of 3: Government Leaders for Fossil Fuel Phaseout – WECAN March 31 Assembl

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