REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE AND THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY IN THE UK Wen and Birth Companions have published a paper looking at the implications of the climate emergency for reproductive justice in the UK. Climate change, global heating, pollution, exposure to toxic chemicals, environmental degradation and the decline of nature – referred to collectively as the climate and…
Category Archives: Women’s voices
Read our interview with Belinda Everett, founder of Bee Pedal Ready and one of Cycle UK’s Top 100 Women in Cycling of 2022.
Wen is excited to have secured a grant from City Bridge Trust, through the Propel initiative. The three year funding, which started in April 2023, will enable Wen to continue its successful Climate Sisters programme – giving the opportunity to over 100 women in East London to take part in the Feminist Climate Leadership programme.…
Food production, consumption and preparation is highly gendered, so taking an intersectional feminist approach is crucial for working towards a just food and climate transition. The Food Policy Paper, published later in 2023, is part of a Feminist Green New Deal policy paper series and final report which outline key policy recommendations needed to create…
BRINGING WOMEN’S VOICES TO THE CLIMATE TABLE The Climate Sisters ‘Local Women of the World at the Climate Table’ project, funded by Propel, aims to make systemic change by amplifying marginalised women’s voices in climate justice debates and in the transition to a low-carbon economy. Here we hear from Climate Sisters participants who have taken…
Find out about The Climate Sisters project, funded by propel, which aims to make systemic change by amplifying marginalised women’s voices in climate justice debates and in the transition to a low-carbon economy.
Shaheda Aziz, Wen speaks with Dr Vandana Shiva, world renowned environmental thinker, activist and feminist about what climate justice would look like in our food system.
Read our interview with Kerran Kaur who works with communities sharing her knowledge and recipes to a plant-based, ethical, just food system.
Read our interview with Harshita Jha, a feminist social work practitioner – discussing how women-led community participation, for poverty eradication, intersects with climate action.
Read our interview with Scheaffer Okore, talking about why menstruation is a human rights issue, period taboo and #MyAlwaysExperience.