Fawzia Koofi: Changing Geopolitical Landscapes, Afghanistan's Future Prospects and the struggle for Human and Female Rights

The Oxford Guild is delighted to host Fawzia Koofi, a Nobel Peace Prize Nominee and renowned Human and Women’s Rights Activist who was the first female Deputy Speaker of the Afghan Parliament who recently negotiated terms of peace with the Taliban in 2020, before the withdrawal of US troops, on Monday 9th May from 6:30pm in Oriel College’s Harris Lecture Theatre.

Climate and Environmental Justice Matters: Towards connected knowledge and policy in a development pluriverse

Climate change and biodiversity loss are fundamentally crises of justice as much as they are crises related to the biophysical environment. Existing approaches that ignore this are not working, and frequently perpetuate harm. This lecture will reflect on matters of justice, as related both to current and historic factors like uneven development, colonisation and environmental racism that shape vulnerabilities over long periods of time, and to processes of disconnection that separate people from the non-human natures they are part of.
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